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Yes, auto-closing an issue waiting on external feedback that hasn't happened is a great thing. Unfortunately GitHub isn't set up for that at all — there's no ea
by mook 5y ago
Yes, auto-closing an issue waiting on external feedback that hasn't happened is a great thing. Unfortunately GitHub isn't set up for that at all — there's no easy configuration to do that; instead the easy thing is to close based on inactivity without considering who the issue is waiting on.
You essentially need to have a label ("needs user feedback") that isn't applied by default, have the stale bot only act on issues with that label, and get that label cleared automatically on any comment. I don't think that last part is doable without your own custom bot.
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoOf all the things I miss from Jira, the ability to have an explicit "waiting on user" state is definitely one of the big ones. Edit: Someone below has suggested a way to roughly do this with tags; I'll have to try that.