Comment by Avamander
4 years ago
I loathe all auto-closing so much, it's such a cheap way out of issue triage. The ostrich method of project management. It's a good red flag though, I know not to waste my time on the project. Who knows what major issues have been auto-ignored.
It can be especially inane if the issues are also locked automatically, you're already ignoring the issue why the f can't you let people discuss workarounds or request reopen.
Firefox Android did that and I stopped contributing. It's not even that I hold a grudge, but the ostrich method is extremely frustrating to the reporters
I keep hoping someone will be gutsy enough to build and deploy a bumpbot (or bots!) to combat stalebot.
I keep hoping it will simply gain a way to say 'I still care, this is still an issue, there's no new information to add, (nor asked for!) it's just not being prioritised so please leave it open'. Or infer that after a couple of stale removals.
Sure they close a lot of junk from drive-by question askers which helps maintainers, but they piss off a lot of good citizens providing information on actual bugs/feature requests that are just waiting for attention too.
Combine that with the CLA plague and you have a recipe for nothing but corporate-backed open source contributions. Individuals need not apply.
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Not a bad idea. Should make it so it runs under user tokens so people can run it under their own accounts with their own message template.