Article 6F1F7 No more stale bots!

No more stale bots!

by
Thom Holwerda
from OSnews on (#6F1F7)

On github, there has been an increasing trend of using Staleness detector bots" that will auto-close issues that have had no activity for X amount of time.

In concept, this may sound fine, but the effects this has, and how it poisons the core principles of Open Source, have been damaging and eroding projects for a long time, often unknowingly.

I'm not a developer and even I can instantly see such bots would create countless problems. I had no idea such bots were being used.

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