From d608b7994cb3717a707278749dc02ea445f218bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shahar Epstein <60007259+shahar1@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 19:23:57 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Remove the stale workflow that never runs

The job targets ubuntu-20.04, a GitHub-hosted image that has been retired, so
no runner ever picks it up and GitHub cancels it after 24 hours in the queue.
None of the runs still on record succeeded, yet each one shows up in the ASF
GitHub Actions usage report as a full day of runner time.

Updating the runner is not worthwhile. Issues are disabled on this repository,
the pending-response label the issue rules filter on does not exist, and the
repository sees too few pull requests to need automated closing.
---
 .github/workflows/stale.yml | 49 -------------------------------------
 1 file changed, 49 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 .github/workflows/stale.yml

diff --git a/.github/workflows/stale.yml b/.github/workflows/stale.yml
deleted file mode 100644
index c1a6bd89..00000000
--- a/.github/workflows/stale.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
-# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
-# distributed with this work for additional information
-# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
-# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
-# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
-# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
-# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
-# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
-# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
-# specific language governing permissions and limitations
-# under the License.
-#
----
-# https://github.com/actions/stale
-name: 'Close stale PRs & Issues'
-on:  # yamllint disable-line rule:truthy
-  schedule:
-    - cron: '0 0 * * *'
-permissions:
-  # All other permissions are set to none
-  pull-requests: write
-  issues: write
-jobs:
-  stale:
-    runs-on: ubuntu-20.04
-    steps:
-      - uses: actions/stale@v7
-        with:
-          stale-pr-message: >
-            This pull request has been automatically marked as stale because it has not had
-            recent activity. It will be closed in 5 days if no further activity occurs. Thank you
-            for your contributions.
-          days-before-pr-stale: 45
-          days-before-pr-close: 5
-          exempt-pr-labels: 'pinned,security'
-          only-issue-labels: 'pending-response'
-          days-before-issue-stale: 30
-          days-before-issue-close: 7
-          stale-issue-message: >
-            This issue has been automatically marked as stale because it has been open for 30 days
-            with no response from the author. It will be closed in next 7 days if no further
-            activity occurs from the issue author.
-          close-issue-message: >
-            This issue has been closed because it has not received response from the issue author.
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