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If you open a bug, you are saying "here's a problem I found that's not important enough to me to spend time fixing". The auto-close bot says "we agree that thi
by jrockway 6y ago
If you open a bug, you are saying "here's a problem I found that's not important enough to me to spend time fixing". The auto-close bot says "we agree that this is not important enough to fix."
If you're paying for a support contract and an auto-close bot is closing all your issues, you should stop paying for the support contract, though.
- mook 6y agoSometimes external contributors do not have the correct power to fix the issues they open; mainly that means the maintainer needs to take some decision (and possibly instruct the issue creator to make a PR). That is, the amount of effort the external person needs to spend time to fix it is "become the maintainer".
- pseudalopex 6y agoHere's a problem I found I don't know how to fix. Here's a problem I found and how I would fix it. Does it sound good to you? Here's a problem I found. It's important enough for me to fix but I can only work on it sporadically. Here's a problem I found. My employer owns everything I write. Here's a problem I found. I'm not a programmer.