A Story is marked Stale when it is in an active Workflow State and has not been updated within a certain number of days.
The following changes to a Story (either individually or when editing Stories in bulk) will reset Story Staleness and remove the Story Staleness indicator on Stories:
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Editing a Story's title or description
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Adding or changing a Story's Owner, Requester, or Followers
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Changing a Story's Project or Epic
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Moving the Story to another workflow state
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Adding or changing a Story's due date
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Adding or changing a Story's estimate point value
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Adding or changing a Story's Labels
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Adding or removing attachments to a Story
The following changes to a Story will not affect Story Staleness:
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Adding or removing external tickets and URLs
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Adding or removing Story relationships