Yes, but those were also the days when it was super painful to contribute to OSS. The issue tracker can also be used as a roadmap / task manager which is very

Yes, but those were also the days when it was super painful to contribute to OSS. The issue tracker can also be used as a roadmap / task manager which is very helpful. The problem isn't the issue tracker. The problem is the developer does not want to maintain everything for everyone. That is perfectly okay so the solution to me is just to communicate that in the project guidelines. To me, not having an issue tracker at all is equivalent to Sublime Text developers dropping off the map for 6 months.