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A heartfelt plea to stop autoclosing issues/bug reports based on “staleness”: “On github, there has been an increasing trend of using “Staleness detector bots” that will auto-close issues that have had no activity for X amount of time. In concept, this may sound fine, but the effects this has, and how it poisons the core principles of Open Source, have been damaging and eroding projects for a long time, often unknowingly.” 100% agree…
(tags: bots communication community issues github bug-reports cadt software open-source)