automatically closing stale pull requests

[Nick Sabalausky (Abscissa)]

On 10/16/18 4:16 PM, notna wrote:
> another interesting discussion [1]... and old/stale pull requests are 
> also discussed here now and then... not sure if this [2] is known to 
> many ppl?!
> 
> - [1] https://marc.info/?t=153926658700001&r=1&w=2
> - [2] https://github.com/probot/stale

I've encountered stalebot before. I's probably the #1 dumbest software 
development idea I've ever seen.

"If we didn't fix the issue, then it must've magically fixed itself."

"Let's decrease our bugcount by closing bugs whether they've fixed or not."

Stupidest, most obviously bad idea ever.