Re:Helping newcomers become contributors to open projects
by ljm on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @08:34PM
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I wonder if this would change if GitHub took the simple step of removing the PR/issue counters from the navigation.
Because I can’t see a reason for automatically dismissing issues you ignore as stale, unless you think the issue count is bad optics for your project.
As well as github’s issue triage piece being non-existent. All you’ve got is a list that shows you 20 things at a time, and it suffers from the social media effect where anyone can add bullshit memes to the thread once someone on twitter has directed the mob to it.
You don’t really see that happen so much outside of github.
Because I can’t see a reason for automatically dismissing issues you ignore as stale, unless you think the issue count is bad optics for your project.
As well as github’s issue triage piece being non-existent. All you’ve got is a list that shows you 20 things at a time, and it suffers from the social media effect where anyone can add bullshit memes to the thread once someone on twitter has directed the mob to it.
You don’t really see that happen so much outside of github.