A few dozen issues is one thing, but lots of the major OSS projects have thousands of open issues at any given time. If people think that each open issue is an

A few dozen issues is one thing, but lots of the major OSS projects have thousands of open issues at any given time. If people think that each open issue is an unfixed bug or missing feature, then thousands of issues would mean that the project is at best unreliable and at worst fundamentally broken or dead. Except most of those issues are from users who should be asking questions on stack overflow.