It seems like there are issues with the GitHub [`protobot/stale`](https://github.com/probot/stale) application https://github.com/probot/stale/issues/385, https://github.com/probot/stale/issues/384, https://github.com/probot/stale/issues/378, and given that the protobot seems to have been abandoned, the main alternative is now to use [`actions/stale`](https://github.com/actions/stale) in a GitHub actions workflow. ___PS:__ the stale bot becoming abandoned is almost too much irony for me to handle._ 