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Auto cleanup bots are one of my biggest pet peeves in recent years. As another commenter mentioned, angular is the worst offender for me. Ive seen countless _re
by JamesSwift 6y ago
Auto cleanup bots are one of my biggest pet peeves in recent years. As another commenter mentioned, angular is the worst offender for me. Ive seen countless _real_ issues get closed over the years because of inactivity by core maintainers.
The only reason I knew those github issues existed in the first place was because I wasted hours (sometimes days) of my life looking into an issue only to eventually stumble upon them and realize its a bug and I'm not "holding it wrong". Good luck to the next person that goes spelunking on the internet for help on those issues.
- moufestaphio 6y ago>Good luck to the next person that goes spelunking on the internet for help on those issues. Reminds me of: https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
- pmiller2 6y agoIf only there was a way you could mark an issue as "old, but still possibly relevant." Perhaps by adding a label, or something.... Doesn't all issue tracking software support either labels, tags, or custom statuses beyond "open, todo, in progress, closed"? I think having a bot tag, but not close, issues over a certain age, seems to make a lot of sense.
- kazinator 6y agoThe "age" of an issue should be the most recent version number of the software in which it reproduces, and not the date when the ticket was created.
- edflsafoiewq 6y agoWhy? If you want to know how old it is, just look at the filing date.