closes #481, #482, #483, #484

Author: dhoomakethu

.github/greetings.yml

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+name: Greetings
+
+on: [pull_request, issues]
+
+jobs:
+  greeting:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/first-interaction@v1
+      with:
+        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        issue-message: 'Thank You for using Pymodbus and on your first issue here !!!'
+        pr-message: 'Thank you for your PR, Please make sure you are raising it against `dev` branch and all the tests are passing !!!.'

.github/pythonpackage.yml

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+name: Upload Python Package
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [created]
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.x'
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install setuptools wheel twine
+    - name: Build and publish
+      env:
+        TWINE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.PYPI_USERNAME }}
+        TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}
+      run: |
+        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+        twine upload dist/*

.github/pythonpublish.yml

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+name: Upload Python Package
+
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [created]
+
+jobs:
+  deploy:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v1
+    - name: Set up Python
+      uses: actions/setup-python@v1
+      with:
+        python-version: '3.x'
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: |
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+        pip install setuptools wheel twine
+    - name: Build and publish
+      env:
+        TWINE_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.PYPI_USERNAME }}
+        TWINE_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.PYPI_PASSWORD }}
+      run: |
+        python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel
+        twine upload dist/*

.github/stale.yml

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+name: Mark stale issues and pull requests
+
+on:
+  schedule:
+  - cron: "0 0 * * *"
+
+jobs:
+  stale:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/stale@v1
+      with:
+        repo-token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        stale-issue-message: 'This issue is being marked stale, as there is no activity in the past 30 days, Will be closeed in 5 days if there is no further activity.'
+        stale-pr-message: 'This PR is being marked stale, as there is no activity in the past 30 days, Will be closeed in 5 days if there is no further activity.'
+        stale-issue-label: 'no-issue-activity'
+        stale-pr-label: 'no-pr-activity'
+        days-before-stale: 30
+        days-before-close: 5