One way that I found out recently in the vite github repository [0], is to use github actions cron job to automatically close issues with certain labels, like "needs reproduction".

This way maintainers need to at least explicitly set the label before the issue is closed automatically, and not the other way around.

[0]: https://github.com/vitejs/vite/blob/b6d12f71c1dbd5562f25bc2c...