lock-closed

The lock-closed workflow is located at .github/workflows/lock-closed.yml.

The lock-closed GitHub Action automatically locks issues and PRs that have been closed for more than a year. It is intended to reduce "necrobumping" (the addition of comments, including spam, to old/closed issues).

This reusable action depends on the following actions:

• dessant/lock-threads@v3

Inputs

The action has the following inputs:

Required inputs

target-repo

Specify the target repository this action should run on. This is used to prevent actions from running on repositories other than the target repository. For example, specifying a target-repo of mdn/workflows will prevent the action from running on forks of mdn/workflows.

• This input is required.

Optional inputs

issue-inactive-days

The number of days before an issue is considered inactive.

• This input is optional with a default of 365

Usage

In the repository that will call this action, you will need to add a .github/workflows/lock-closed.yml file with the following content:

With defaults

name: "Lock inactive issues and pull requests"

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 * * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  lock-closed:
    uses: mdn/workflows/.github/workflows/lock-closed.yml@main
    with:
      target-repo: "mdn/workflows"

Overriding default inactive days

name: "Lock inactive issues and pull requests"

on:
  schedule:
    - cron: "0 * * * *"
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  lock-closed:
    uses: mdn/workflows/.github/workflows/lock-closed.yml@main
    with:
      issue-inactive-days: 42
      target-repo: "mdn/workflows"