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> skim open issues What do you go looking for with this? And what results make you consider/not consider the project based on what you find while skimming open
by diggan 3y ago
> skim open issues
What do you go looking for with this? And what results make you consider/not consider the project based on what you find while skimming open issues?
- jawmes8 3y agoI usually look for duplicate issues that aren’t being addressed, or if there’s just a lot of seemingly non-trivial ones that go unanswered
- sph 3y agoFor me the presence of a stale bot that automatically closes issues after 30 days - like Bulma - is a major red flag. Sweeping issues under the carpet actively makes your library worse, only because one really values the vanity metric of "closed/open issue ratio". Github star count is another useless metric, often inflated by "star this on github" widgets on the homepage.
- Uehreka 3y agoI wish the auto-close bot could be considered a red flag for the exact reasons you stated, but unfortunately it’s in effect on tons of actually good projects, so it’s not useful as a signal.
- paulddraper 3y agoSort the issues by # of reactions, and then read the top few. Just like reading Amazon reviews. See what people are complaining about and then answer whether you care about those things