> I very, very rarely experience having my MR or issue completely ignored for years with projects which use a web issue/MR tracker, except for with unmaintained

> I very, very rarely experience having my MR or issue completely ignored for years with projects which use a web issue/MR tracker, except for with unmaintained single-person hobby projects. I mean, it might not be "completely ignored", but after the initial triage by a maintainer I have definitely experienced extremely large projects going years ignoring something from the core while occasionally random third parties show up to cry. The worst part is that if people stop actively commenting with "me too"--even if an official developer chastises them for it every time--the issue often gets auto-locked/deleted. (Or, in the case of a pull request, the code will rot to the point where something auto-closes it due to it no longer merging.)