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stale bot does more than closing. It also locks issues; that is the gist of the discussion here. If projects want to treat issues as tasks, then they should at
by Aissen 5y ago
stale bot does more than closing. It also locks issues; that is the gist of the discussion here. If projects want to treat issues as tasks, then they should at least auto-convert any locked issue into a forum post; or use appropriate tagging to hide issues they don't care about from their "task list". If projects don't want to handle this, disabling issues on their project is even better than this middle ground "stale bot locks it all".
- geerlingguy 5y agoThat isn't the default behavior. Locking issues is ridiculous, IMO, because then you get tons of duplicate discussions and it's impossible to follow one discussion thread. Often times even close issues have fruitful conversation after the closure. Locking should only happen in extreme circumstances, like if the discussion gets heated and people are personally attacking others.
- Aissen 5y agoThanks for the clarification, I only remembered the "locked" behavior, and that seems to be what is discussed in the article (see main screenshot). I agree that closing without locking is a good enough middleground (i.e same as tagging the issue).
- majkinetor 5y agoYeah, people do all kind of dumb things once you leave them options. The wrong thing is to extrapolate from it. That option is certainly valuable in some context, but not in general.