An inspired blogpost by Frank Denis on the depression that may be felt by FOSS maintainers

  • Yujiri@lemmy.ml
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    3 years ago

    I sympathize with his pain, but some of the solutions he mentions are very bad and unnecessary. The proper solution is to simply stop treating the issue tracker as a todo list for the maintainer; treat it as a todo list for the community. Automatically closing issues is harmful: https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html