The original title "Someone silently closed 37% (19/52) of Android bugs with 500+ stars on Dec 25th" is fairly accurate. Silently not only means without adding

The original title "Someone silently closed 37% (19/52) of Android bugs with 500+ stars on Dec 25th" is fairly accurate. Silently not only means without adding a comment, but also hoping no-one would notice which is why Christmas Day is chosen. It reminds me of a year ago, also under cover of Christmas Eve, when one of the 5 despots of Groovy, the programming language chosen by Google to power its Gradle-based Android builds, launched a weekly mailout newsletter from his own personal website, putting announcements there ahead of the community mailing list, and soliciting for subscribers in a clear attempt to take over.