A pile of stale open issues makes a project look dead
Quote
when new people come to the namespace repo, and they see 133 open issues, it looks like we're not doing anything. It looks like progress is not being made,
Episode 107: Clippy for Developers! (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:38:29 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)
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Summary
The podcast namespace repo had 133 open issues, some untouched for two years with no clear resolution. Dave agrees that newcomers who see that number assume nothing is getting done.
Not in the audio. Dave is echoing a point made by someone else on podcastindex.social ('the point he makes').