There are many reasons a pull request may become inactive or stale in the course of building a product – it might be related to a feature you decide not to release, or inadvertently forgotten amidst the day-to-day routines.

Whatever the reason, it’s easy for stale requests to go unnoticed and pile up, adding unnecessary clutter and cognitive load to your otherwise streamlined operations.

With this Recipe, you’ll be better equipped to stay on top of your stale requests. When a pull request in GitHub has been open for seven days, Rippling will send a notification automatically to the author of the pull request and their manager, alerting them to the stale request.

Seven days not long enough? As with all of our workflow Recipes, you can customise this template to your exact needs, including when it should trigger, what the actions should be, who it should go to and more.