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CONSUL CLOSES PRs SLOWER, GITHUB ACTIONS ALIGN ACROSS HASHICORP
By RepoJournal · Filed · About HashiCorp
Consul's stale PR automation just got a lot less aggressive, giving maintainers 90 days before a PR starts gathering dust instead of 60.
The Consul team shipped a much-needed correction to PR hygiene [1], doubling the window before pull requests get marked stale (90 days now, down from 60) and giving them another full 60 days before closure instead of 30. This is the kind of change that silently kills contributor friction. Meanwhile, across the HashiCorp ecosystem, both go-envparse and go-syslog are rolling out actions/setup-go v7.0.0 [2] [3], which migrated the GitHub Action to ESM and upgraded its internal dependencies. It's routine maintenance, but it's happening across multiple repos simultaneously, which means your Go CI pipelines are about to get more consistent.
Action items
- → Review your own stale PR windows if you maintain public projects with aggressive timelines hashicorp/consul [plan]
- → Plan actions/setup-go v7.0.0 rollout across your CI workflows hashicorp/go-envparse [plan]
References
- [1] Increase stale PR windows to 90/60 days ↗ hashicorp/consul
- [2] [chore] : Bump actions/setup-go from 6.5.0 to 7.0.0 in the github-actions group ↗ hashicorp/go-envparse
- [3] [chore] : Bump actions/setup-go from 6.5.0 to 7.0.0 in the github-actions group ↗ hashicorp/go-syslog