Background

We currently use github actions on one of our gitops repos to autoupdate PRs with the latest main branch. Because of this PRs are updated frequently and considered to have a high amount of activity.

We wanted to also use github actions (actions/stale) to close PRs that had been open for several days. Currently the following is supported by action/stale:

with:
          repo-token: ${{ token }}
          stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open for 5 days. Remove stale label or this PR will be closed in 3 days.'
          remove-pr-stale-when-updated: false
          days-before-pr-stale: 5
          days-before-pr-close: 3

This works as expected marking any PR as stale (that has not had any activity for 5 days) and closing it 3 days later if still labeled stale.

This however falls slightly short of our use case. For our use case we would like the option to ignore PR activity and mark the PR as stale if it has been open for 5 days (activity or no activity).

Request

Add a flag option such as ignore-pr-activity that ignores PR activity if set to true and simply tracks the time from when the PR was open.
example:

with:
          repo-token: ${{ token }}
          stale-pr-message: 'This PR is stale because it has been open for 5 days. Remove stale label or this PR will be closed in 3 days.'
          remove-pr-stale-when-updated: false
          ignore-pr-activity: true  # defaults to false, when true will count time from the day PR was open ignoring all activity
          days-before-pr-stale: 5
          days-before-pr-close: 3