This presumes a thoughtful and deliberate approach, where all decisions and other actions related to bug management come from a place of wisdom and care, but th

This presumes a thoughtful and deliberate approach, where all decisions and other actions related to bug management come from a place of wisdom and care, but that filters out pretty much any project that's using GitHub Issues to track bugs. The kind of thought that goes into choosing GitHub for projects' bugtrackers is about the same level of thought that went into the decisions of anyone who was using Internet Explorer 10 years ago: they didn't think about it a lot, nor did they particularly care—they just picked it because it was there.