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0 points2Gkashmiri1y ago0 comments

And then you have stale bot on GitHub closing issues for no activity in like 3 months -_-

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That bot is disgusting. I spent a lot of time and effort to write detailed bug reports only to have this stupid bot spit in my face close them (and yes, some of the bugs are still there till this day).

I've learned not to bother submitting bug reports unless I can guarantee that my time will not be wasted. If I find a bug in a project that doesn t guarantee this, I either fix it privately for myself or switch to another project.

Closing issues automatically. What a demented idea.

sesm1y ago

That's because most Github repos are not for collaborative development, but rather for marketing and customer support.

aendruk1y ago

Closing is one thing—at least you can still use the issue as a communal gathering point to make slow progress. The casual locking on the other hand is mystifying.

And so often there’s the added gaslighting of a project that provides some rationale for closing but then inexplicably locks too as if that’s the same.

bombcar1y ago

Closing is great - it’s an honest assessment that “we’re not going to work on it.”

It still turns up in search and you can comment on it (some even reopen automatically if you do).

Locking automatically is just the worst - we don’t care, we won’t care, and you’ll never get us to care.

5e92cb50239222b1y ago

I like these kinds of statements, they let you know right off the bat that your time is better spent elsewhere. People who see this as normal will screw you over sooner or later in other ways, e.g. by changing licenses or needless rewriting over and over and over again. At least that's been my experience.

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