ci: remove stale workflow

[trueberryless]

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This PR removes the stale.yml workflow.

📚 Description

As suggested and agreed on Discord, this PR removes the stale action since it is mostly annoying us because we reopen most of the auto-closed PRs and issues. It was helpful when we had huge amounts of PRs in the beginning, but not necessary anymore.

Note

After merging, I think we can also delete the GitHub labels stale and stale-to-close itself as well. They will be removed from all PRs and issues that currently have them assigned, which is desired because they don't do much more, but they will be preserved in the history (timeline) of existing PRs so traceability is still guaranteed.

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  • Automated marking and closing of inactive bug reports and pull requests has been removed. These items will no longer be automatically marked stale or closed after periods of inactivity.

Walkthrough

The scheduled and manually triggered stale-management workflow was deleted. Its issue and pull request jobs, permissions, stale thresholds, labels and operation limits were removed.

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Stale management

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Remove stale-management workflow .github/workflows/stale.yml	The workflow and its triggers, issue and pull request jobs, permissions, thresholds, labels and operation limits were removed.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 9ff29

Automatic stale labeling and closure will stop as intended. No merge-blocking issue is identified; deleting existing stale labels remains a separate follow-up.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely states that the stale workflow is being removed. It matches the main change in the pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description explains that the stale workflow is removed and gives the reason for the change. It is directly related to the changeset.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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[mootari]

They will be removed from all PRs and issues that currently have them assigned, which is desired

Let's maybe hold off on deleting the stale-to-close label so that auto-closed issues can still be identified. I alone have a list of 9 auto-close notifications in my inbox of issues I was following, and the only reason I didn't bump them was because of the noise.

Also, why don't we start by simply disabling the workflow?

[danielroe]

thank you! ❤️

let's leave the labels for now

as far as disabling it, I prefer to remove the workflow so the status isn't hidden in the ui