> We have a bug reported back in 2020 that got closed recently without any action because it became stale One of my pet hates is the (ab)use by repo maintaine

> We have a bug reported back in 2020 that got closed recently without any action because it became stale One of my pet hates is the (ab)use by repo maintainers of the auto-close-when-stale feature on Github. What useful purpose does it serve beyond making the repo maintainers look good because they have a low number of open issues ? It doesn't actually address the issue. Its the virtual equivalent of brushing under the carpet.