From afdd36a36c889412dc36e65a2bbcd83a01ac1c49 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Garth Vander Houwen <garthvh@yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2026 14:08:26 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] chore(ci): remove the stale-issue auto-closer (#7018)

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 .github/workflows/stale.yml | 32 --------------------------------
 1 file changed, 32 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 fd2342e923..0000000000
--- a/.github/workflows/stale.yml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-name: Close Stale Issues
-on:
-  schedule:
-    - cron: 0 6 * * *
-  workflow_dispatch: {}
-
-permissions:
-  issues: write
-  pull-requests: write
-
-concurrency:
-  group: ${{ github.workflow }}
-  cancel-in-progress: false
-
-jobs:
-  stale_issues:
-    name: Close Stale Issues
-    # actions/stale is pure API work with no checkout, so ubuntu-slim's container is
-    # sufficient. Its 15-minute platform cap matches the timeout already set here.
-    runs-on: ubuntu-slim
-    timeout-minutes: 15
-    if: github.repository == 'meshtastic/Meshtastic-Android'
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Stale PR+Issues
-        uses: actions/stale@4391f3da665fdf50b6810c1a66712fb9ba21aa93 # v11.0.0
-        with:
-          days-before-stale: 30
-          stale-issue-message: This issue has not had any comment or update in the last 30 days. If it is still relevant, please post update comments. If no comments are made, this issue will be closed in 7 days.
-          exempt-issue-labels: 'has sponsor,needs sponsor,help wanted,backlog,security issue,l10n,dependencies' 
-          exempt-pr-labels: 'has sponsor,needs sponsor,help wanted,backlog,security issue,l10n,dependencies'
-          operations-per-run: 100