Re:Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
by dspillett on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:52AM
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> and hopes that users won't notice the issue
It is a little more than that in many cases. People judging a project overall by the number of open bugs reports, no matter how minor, isn't really fair if there is considerable development on more important bugs/features/other elsewhere in the project.
Re:Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
by beart on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @11:08AM
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It also isn't fair for people who assume a project that has a large number of closed issues is highly active, when in fact, a large number of those issues have just never seen any activity and were closed for being stale.
Re:Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
by dspillett on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @03:20PM
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If the issues are closed with WONTFIX or similar status, as discussed nearby in this thread, then it should still be clear that something is going on. It is then up to the reader to decide if that something is enough for them to worry about or not.
The only reason I can see to close old bugs is that a project wants to make it seem like it has fewer issues than it does, and hopes that users won't notice the issue.