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But what would be the value in leaving hundreds of open reports and nobody looking after them? Or do you mean some good bug reports are going to be missed beca

But what would be the value in leaving hundreds of open reports and nobody looking after them? Or do you mean some good bug reports are going to be missed because of this? Because in general if an issue is even moderately important, we'll hear about it via multiple channels - the issue tracker, the forum, Discord, etc. so we'll eventually be aware of it and there will be a proper bug report on the issue tracker. Either we'll select a good one among the duplicates, or we'll create one.

Vinnl 5y ago
The "value" would be that nobody would be complaining about issues getting closed. Of course, that's just a small upside, but since I don't see any downside with it, I'm still wondering why one wouldn't do that.
mook 5y ago
The value would be in somebody else encountering the problem — they don't need to open a new issue (that will eventually get closed due to being stale later). Net effect is that you get less mail.