Older issues are not following issue lifecycle

[michael-valdron]

Which area this feature is related to?

/kind bug

Which area this bug is related to?

/area ci

Bug Summary

Describe the bug:

A large portion of our older issues are not following the issue lifecycle via the automation, i.e. label lifecycle/stale after 90 days then label lifecycle/rotten and close after an additional 60 days under lifecycle/stale.

To Reproduce:

Though this cannot be reproduced manually, it can be observed with older issues that have not recieved updates in +90 days, for example #913.

Expected behavior

All issue should receive label lifecycle/stale after 90 days then label lifecycle/rotten and close as not planned after an additional 60 days under lifecycle/stale.

Any logs, error output, screenshots etc? Provide the devfile that sees this bug, if applicable

View example #913, last updated Nov 28, 2023 which is long enough to make it stale as of writing, however, it is not labelled lifecycle/stale as expected.

Additional context

Any workaround?

Manually close all issues with a recent update long enough that it should be labelled lifecycle/rotten as not planned with a post stating that the issue is rotten and can be re-opened if there is still interest (also recommending manual addition of lifecycle/rotten label as well).

Caveat with doing this is that this won't cover all issues effected by this bug, issues that are still in the stale portion of the lifecycle (without the label) or recently updated could still be effected and will linger in the backlog. It is estimated that all issues older than the implementation of the automation handling this are effected.

Suggestion on how to fix the bug

None found yet.

See #1528.

[michael-valdron]

Blocked by investigation task #1528.

[johnmcollier]

Waiting on resolution of #1528