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Inactive PR Reminder #78

Inactive PR Reminder

Inactive PR Reminder #78

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# Purpose: nudge PR authors before stale automation or reviewer drift kicks in.
# Contract: runs on a schedule/manual trigger, skips frozen/do-not-merge PRs,
# and posts at most one bot reminder per PR by checking existing comments.
name: Inactive PR Reminder
on:
schedule:
- cron: "0 7 * * *"
workflow_dispatch: {}
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}
cancel-in-progress: true
permissions:
contents: read
jobs:
remind:
name: Nudge inactive PRs
if: github.repository == 'nvidia/nvsentinel'
runs-on: linux-amd64-cpu8
permissions:
pull-requests: write
timeout-minutes: 10
steps:
- name: Check for inactive PRs
uses: actions/github-script@3a2844b7e9c422d3c10d287c895573f7108da1b3 # v9.0.0
with:
script: |
const now = new Date();
const msPerDay = 86400000;
const skipLabels = ['lifecycle/frozen', 'do-not-merge'];
const prs = await github.paginate(github.rest.pulls.list, {
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
state: 'open',
sort: 'updated',
direction: 'asc',
per_page: 100,
});
for (const pr of prs) {
if (pr.labels.some((label) => skipLabels.includes(label.name))) {
continue;
}
const updated = new Date(pr.updated_at);
const daysInactive = Math.floor((now - updated) / msPerDay);
if (daysInactive < 14 || daysInactive >= 30) {
continue;
}
const comments = await github.paginate(github.rest.issues.listComments, {
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
issue_number: pr.number,
per_page: 100,
});
const alreadyReminded = comments.some((comment) =>
comment.user.type === 'Bot' &&
comment.body.includes('has been inactive for')
);
if (alreadyReminded) {
continue;
}
await github.rest.issues.createComment({
owner: context.repo.owner,
repo: context.repo.repo,
issue_number: pr.number,
body: `@${pr.user.login} this PR has been inactive for ${daysInactive} days. Do you need help finishing it, or should we close it for now? Feel free to reopen anytime.`,
});
}