Then you are, in my humble opinion, doing it exactly right :-) (apart from going all-in and just never closing anything, but yours is a very good middle ground)

Then you are, in my humble opinion, doing it exactly right :-) (apart from going all-in and just never closing anything, but yours is a very good middle ground) > even closed issues can have a very fruitful discussion long after the issue was originally posted 100% agree! In some occasions I've learned a lot from reading long related conversations in a bug report that had been closed or resolved long since.