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+# Copyright (C) Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
+
+# see https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-issues-and-pull-requests/closing-inactive-issues
+# see https://github.com/actions/stale
+
+# Automatically closing issues is far from perfect, but then we only
+# have limited resources and this approach favors issues that people
+# actually care about.
+#
+# also see:
+#   "Should I Stale or Should I Close? An Analysis of a Bot that Closes
+#    Abandoned Issues and Pull Request".
+#   https://igorwiese.com/images/papers/Paper_BotSE_19.pdf
+
+name: 'GitHub - Close stale issues'
+on:
+  schedule: [cron: '50 0 * * 1'] # run weekly Monday 00:50 UTC
+  workflow_dispatch:
+jobs:
+  job-close-stale-issues:
+    if: github.repository_owner == 'upx' && github.repository == 'upx/upx'
+    name: 'Close stale issues'
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    permissions:
+      issues: write
+      pull-requests: write
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/stale@v9
+        with:
+          operations-per-run: 300
+          exempt-all-milestones: true
+          exempt-issue-labels: 'blocker,bug,enhancement,help wanted,regression'
+          days-before-stale: 90
+          days-before-close: 30
+          stale-issue-message: 'This issue is stale because it has been open for 90 days with no activity. Please remove the stale label or add a comment or this issue will be closed in 30 days.'
+          stale-pr-message:       'This PR is stale because it has been open for 90 days with no activity. Please remove the stale label or add a comment or this PR will be closed in 30 days.'
+          close-issue-message: 'This issue was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please feel free to reopen.'
+          close-pr-message:       'This PR was closed because it has been stalled for 30 days with no activity. Please feel free to reopen.'
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}