add github workflow (#3769)

Author: manodnyab

.github/workflows/stale-issue-cleanup.yml

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+name: "Close stale issues"
+
+# Controls when the action will run.
+on:
+  # allows doing a manual trigger of the action
+  workflow_dispatch:
+  # disable cron until dry run is completed successfully
+  # schedule:
+  # - cron: "0 0 * * *"
+
+permissions: {}
+jobs:
+  cleanup:
+    permissions:
+      issues: write # to label, comment and close issues (aws-actions/stale-issue-cleanup)
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    name: Stale issues
+    steps:
+      - uses: aws-actions/stale-issue-cleanup@v6
+        with:
+          # Types of issues that will be processed
+          issue-types: issues
+          # Setting messages to an empty string will cause the automation to skip
+          # that category
+          stale-issue-message: This issue is missing required information and will be closed in 7 days. To keep the issue open, leave a comment.
+          # this has been added as a placeholder but will likely not be used because the timeline is set as 100 years
+          ancient-issue-message: This issue will automatically close because it has stalled for 1 year. To keep the issue open, leave a comment.
+
+          # These labels are required
+          stale-issue-label: closing-soon
+          exempt-issue-labels: no-autoclose
+          response-requested-label: needs-response
+          closed-for-staleness-label: closed-for-staleness
+
+          # Issue timing
+          days-before-stale: 30
+          days-before-close: 7
+          # setting this to 100 years to avoid closing valid old issues that are yet to be triaged
+          days-before-ancient: 36500
+
+          # If you don't want to mark an issue as being ancient based on a
+          # threshold of "upvotes", you can set this here. An "upvote" is
+          # the total number of +1, heart, hooray, and rocket reactions
+          # on an issue.
+          minimum-upvotes-to-exempt: 5
+
+          # Leave this alone, or set to a PAT for the action to use
+          repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          # Testing/debugging options
+          loglevel: DEBUG
+          # Set dry-run to true to not perform label or close actions.
+          dry-run: true