nixpkgs/.github/STALE-BOT.md
David Arnold 27510ad13f stale bot: TL;DR
moves all the information to the Markdown document that we can
dynamically update and tries to make things more concise and scannable.

Co-authored-by: Ryan Mulligan <ryan@ryantm.com>
Co-authored-by: Travis A. Everett <travis.a.everett@gmail.com>
2020-10-24 20:13:17 -07:00

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