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[lifecycle] in config.toml sets each of these periods, exempts issues by label, assignee or 👍, and can lock threads closed long ago; the comments and check follow the settings.

What the morning sweep does with an issue, by the settings of its lifecycle: The sweep reads the lifecycle section of config.toml and stops with an error when a period can't work, such as a closing before the reminder. An issue that waits for its reporter or for the closing as a duplicate is left to the maintainers when it is exempt: it has one of the exempt labels, pinned and security by default, it is assigned while exempt_assignees is true, or it has at least exempt_upvotes thumbs up. Otherwise it gets the reminder after remind_after_days, 15 by default, and closes after close_after_days, 30, or closes as a duplicate after duplicate_grace_days, 3. Only when lock_closed_after_days is set does the sweep lock an issue closed for longer, and at least the reopen window of a release, with one line that points to a new issue, unless it is exempt or someone unlocked it.What the morning sweep does with an issue, by the settings of its lifecycle: The sweep reads the lifecycle section of config.toml and stops with an error when a period can't work, such as a closing before the reminder. An issue that waits for its reporter or for the closing as a duplicate is left to the maintainers when it is exempt: it has one of the exempt labels, pinned and security by default, it is assigned while exempt_assignees is true, or it has at least exempt_upvotes thumbs up. Otherwise it gets the reminder after remind_after_days, 15 by default, and closes after close_after_days, 30, or closes as a duplicate after duplicate_grace_days, 3. Only when lock_closed_after_days is set does the sweep lock an issue closed for longer, and at least the reopen window of a release, with one line that points to a new issue, unless it is exempt or someone unlocked it.

The days of the life of an issue are the defaults of [lifecycle] in config.toml, and a repository with slow reporters or a busy queue sets its own: the reminder after remind_after_days, the closing after close_after_days, a duplicate after duplicate_grace_days, and the window of reopen_after_release_days in which the reporter's comment after a release reopens the issue. The comments name the days that the repository set, in each of their languages, and check fails when the description of needs-info, stale or possible-duplicate in labels.toml names other days.

  • Exempt issues are left to the maintainers: those with a label of exempt_labels, pinned and security by default, those assigned to someone when exempt_assignees is true, and those with at least exempt_upvotes 👍. They get no reminder and never close on their own, also not as a duplicate; one that becomes exempt after its reminder loses stale.
  • Old threads lock when lock_closed_after_days is more than 0: an issue closed for longer, and at least reopen_after_release_days, gets one line that points to a new issue and is locked as resolved, the oldest first and 25 in a sweep. An exempt issue stays unlocked, and so does one that someone unlocked.