I’m bemused that this complaint is almost entirely about locking issues. Most I’ve ever had the misfortune to encounter haven’t been locking issues, just closin

I’m bemused that this complaint is almost entirely about locking issues. Most I’ve ever had the misfortune to encounter haven’t been locking issues, just closing them, which isn’t quite as bad (but almost). I loathe, despise and abominate the GitHub bot with the name “stale” and think it should be discontinued with prejudice. I have never had a positive experience with it, and genuinely cannot imagine any scenario in which it would provide more value than the harm it causes. What of other stale bots that are more nuanced or that provide more meaningful descriptions of what and why? Well, I can think of one or two interactions over the years that seemed more reasonable (e.g. TypeScript’s “it’s been a while, there aren’t ten votes and it hasn’t been accepted, probably nothing’s going to happen, speak now or it’ll be closed”), but even they still cause substantial harm (duplicates, &c.) because GitHub’s search defaults to excluding closed issues. But most of them should definitely be killed with fire. Ooh, ooh! If we’re ranting about issue management systems, here’s another of mine: free-form text fields with templates. You ever tried searching for a word that happens to appear in the template? Yeah, it’s completely useless. I guess this one could be mitigated by a more intelligent indexer that filtered out the template first.