governance: automatically close stale PRs (stalebot / probot-stale)

[surli]

I propose that we use a Github bot to automatically close PR/issues after a period of inactivity.

I've seen lot of big projets using that kind of bot (such as Travis, Docker, ...): I was mixed about it at the beginning, but since @monperrus enforce the closing of PR/issues manually to maintain a "clean" repository, I really think it might be useful to avoid doing ourselves this boring task.

An example of such as bot is available there: https://probot.github.io/apps/stale/

[monperrus]

I like your idea.

Is there a free SaaS service for this?

Otherwise, I propose to host it at OW2.

[surli]

I don't think you need to host anything. AFAIK you install it as a Github app in the repo and you need to configure it by adding a file in the repo, like for the travis.yml.