remove the stale bot #1061
remove the stale bot #1061
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The [stale bot](https://github.com/marketplace/stale) is considered [harmful](https://drewdevault.com/2021/10/26/stalebot.html) and for pretty good reasons in my opinion. It masks and hides legitimate issues just because they may not receive attention for a few months. Closing issues because they're old doesn't make them go away, it just hides them.
I don't agree. When maintaining a big project, you'll encounter a lot of "Issues" which ain't actually issues of the project itself but rather issues with the OS or the user doing something wrong. There were a lot of issues which seemed not to be actual issues and nobody cared anyways so we added stale. In general its a good idea but I think stale should ignore issues which have been reopened once and it definitely should reopen an issue again when a new comment has been made after closing it. In general I agree with removing stale since it has mostly only caused trouble and since I think as maintainer user opinions should be strongly considered as well. |
I can empathize with this situation but if it ends up masking legit issues along with illegitimate issues, can we really call the bot beneficial? Of course, this is just my humble opinion.
If the stale bot can be configured to do that, I'm willing to push some changes to this PR. |
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I think we’ve had a significant amount of issues going stale while the reporter still has the issue. The current timeout for going stale is quite short considering the repo is not super active. but it did solve an issue of an ever increasing backlog of issues Overal im definitely in favor of changing the current setup, either remove it or change the settings |
The stale bot is considered harmful and for pretty good reasons in my opinion. It masks and hides legitimate issues just because they may not receive attention for a few months. Closing issues because they're old doesn't make them go away, it just hides them.