Stalebot is being overly aggressive

[shoyer]

E.g., see #1151 where stalebot closed an issue even after another comment.

Is this something we need to reconfigure or just a bug?

cc @pydata/xarray

[max-sixty]

I'll look into it now

[max-sixty]

It looks like it's a (seemingly uncommon) bug.
Given the bug, someone needs to remove the label, rather than only comment on the issue

In the meantime, we can:

• Do nothing
• Change the message to request removing the label
• Disable the bot until this is resolved

Thoughts?

[max-sixty]

While we're here - any other feedback / suggested config changes?

We're down from ~530 to ~400 issues, and inspired a couple PRs along the way. There is some cost in swatting the marked issues though.
We were planning to move the time-to-stale to one year, from two.

[max-sixty]

I haven't seen this reoccur. Limited sample (though a handful of true negatives)

[stale]

In order to maintain a list of currently relevant issues, we mark issues as stale after a period of inactivity

If this issue remains relevant, please comment here or remove the stale label; otherwise it will be marked as closed automatically

[shoyer]

Thank you, slate-bot! I think we can let this one expire now 🤣

[max-sixty]

lol. I just re-logged-in a couple of days ago, since it seemed to have slept on us. Maybe the personal affront brought it back.