Issue triage & stale PRs

hey all - I was triaging issues in GitHub - swiftlang/swift-docc-plugin: Swift Package Manager command plugin for Swift-DocC yesterday, to try and get things into some semblance of updated-ness, and after ran across a lingering PR: add `.vscode` to .gitignore by RandomHashTags · Pull Request #103 · swiftlang/swift-docc-plugin · GitHub

My sense is that this isn't something we'd generally like - kind of across the swiftlang set of repos - but before I replied on behalf of this project/workgroup, I wanted to check in. My take for a response, is something like:

Thank you, but while we don't have a `.vscode` directory here today, that's something 
we don't want to exclude within `.gitignore`. Rather than adding it to the project, we'd 
encourage you to add it your personal .gitignore. For example, I have a gitconfig 
option of `core.excludesfile=~/.gitignore` and include that in the `.gitignore` in my 
home directory.

If anyone disagrees or wants to discuss, let me know, otherwise I'll politely close the PR next week with that response.

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I would suggest .git/info/exclude because it would not bother other repositories and doesn’t require creating an ad-hoc file on disk.

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