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> Issues don't stop being real if you neglect them! Debatable. Issues don't stop being real if someone out there runs into them and can't find a solution beca

> Issues don't stop being real if you neglect them! Debatable. Issues don't stop being real if someone out there runs into them and can't find a solution because the issue has been closed. Issues very much stop being real if the only person in the world who cares about them decides that they don't care or solves it themselves without sharing their wisdom. The former hurts the people whose problems are considered unimportant, while the latter hurts the developers of the project who now have an essentially dead issue in their tracker. The solution? Close stale issues, but with the possibility of letting people say: "Hey, this is closed but is now relevant to me, so let's reopen it." That way, there are never open issues that no one cares about, while the ones that someone starts caring about can be reopened, until they're either fixed or no one cares about them yet again.

jaapz 5y ago
That's how you get a 4 year old issue comment thread that looks like this - stalebot: closed due to inactivity - reporter: still an issue - stalebot: reopened - stalebot: closed due to inactivity - reporter: still an issue - stalebot: reopened - stalebot: closed due to inactivity - reporter: still an issue - stalebot: reopened - stalebot: closed due to inactivity - reporter: still an issue - stalebot: reopened
- rgbrgb 5y ago
  better than a list of stale issues?
- KronisLV 5y ago
  In my eyes that's a good thing, it would immediately let you know that: - the problem persists and hasn't been solved to date - no one actually cares enough to solve it because the discussions just die out until someone runs into it - the problem is also unimportant enough for it not to warrant either a resolution, or getting closed by the devs as a "won't fix" If i saw an issue like that, i'd just reconsider what i'm doing and would look for another technology/library for my needs. Essentially, seeing the above would just be a red flag.

jaapz 5y ago

That's how you get a 4 year old issue comment thread that looks like this - stalebot: closed due to inactivity - reporter: still an issue - stalebot: reopened - stalebot: closed due to inactivity - reporter: still an issue - stalebot: reopened - stalebot: closed due to inactivity - reporter: still an issue - stalebot: reopened - stalebot: closed due to inactivity - reporter: still an issue - stalebot: reopened

rgbrgb 5y ago
better than a list of stale issues?
KronisLV 5y ago
In my eyes that's a good thing, it would immediately let you know that: - the problem persists and hasn't been solved to date - no one actually cares enough to solve it because the discussions just die out until someone runs into it - the problem is also unimportant enough for it not to warrant either a resolution, or getting closed by the devs as a "won't fix" If i saw an issue like that, i'd just reconsider what i'm doing and would look for another technology/library for my needs. Essentially, seeing the above would just be a red flag.