Turn the app off after certain period of inaction

[OnkarRuikar]

Issue

Developers install this app and forget about the forks. The app keeps synchronizing those unattended forked repos—for example, jessejay-ch/content#2. The MDN maintainers are still getting spammed with synch notifications, and the fork owner is unresponsive. This also wastes GitHub resources.

At the moment, there are 73,387 unmerged PRs getting rebased till no end and unnecessarily spamming others in the process.

Solution

GitHub turns off the workflows in inactive repos after 60 days.

To prevent unnecessary workflow runs, scheduled workflows may be disabled automatically. When a public repository is forked, scheduled workflows are disabled by default. In a public repository, scheduled workflows are automatically disabled when no repository activity has occurred in 60 days.

On the same line, could you make the pull app stop updating the sync PRs after a month? This is necessary because the repo owners will not return and will turn off the bot if it is no longer required.

[bot-webhook]

Issue

Developers install this app and forget the forks. And the app keeps synchronizing those unattended forked repos—for example, jessejay-ch/content#2 . The MDN maintainers are still getting spammed with synch notifications, and the fork owner is unresponsive. This also wastes GitHub resources.

Solution

Github turns off the workflows in inactive repos after 60 days.

To prevent unnecessary workflow runs, scheduled workflows may be disabled automatically. When a public repository is forked, scheduled workflows are disabled by default. In a public repository, scheduled workflows are automatically disabled when no repository activity has occurred in 60 days.

On the same line, could you make the pull app stop updating the sync PRs after a month?

[wei]

Hello, thanks for opening the issue. We will consider this use-case.