> Long-forgotten issues and PRs sap enthusiasm and hinder progress.
There are a truly massive number of open source projects that would benefit from this.
Mozilla is pretty much the poster child for "major issue that usually annoys the hell out of users who come across it, for a decade or more." Firefox and Thunderbird are littered with bugs that are half a decade to sometimes as long as two decades old. There are something like 40,000+ verified bugs in Firefox core.
Instead of those bugs getting fixed, we get shit nobody asked for like massive UI overhauls that everyone hates, integration of SaaS shit like Pocket, secretive data-collecting force-installed plugins for a media conglomerate's TV show (!), and so on.
Maybe they could free up some resources by firing some of the numerous product and project managers, while also moving their offices to places other than "the most expensive zipcodes in the most expensive real estate markets all over the world", while also trimming the CEO's pay, which has gone up even as market share has plunged; she's failing upwards.
It could be worse. They could be automatically closing all issues that they havent solved after 6 months like many projects on GitHub do (VS Code is particularly bad for this one).
This is mostly why I have stopped reporting bugs. A good bug report takes a lot of effort to write. Seeing it automatically closed after a few months due to lack of interest is a waste of my precious time.
If they have enough resources to foist unwanted ui overhauls against the wishes of the user, they have enough resources to fix their bugs. We could also begin by firing the worse than useless but rather sabotaging CEO whose first actions upon joining were upping her pay by a few millions and firing 250 employees, and whose pay keeps rising everyday.
> Long-forgotten issues and PRs sap enthusiasm and hinder progress.
There are a truly massive number of open source projects that would benefit from this.
Mozilla is pretty much the poster child for "major issue that usually annoys the hell out of users who come across it, for a decade or more." Firefox and Thunderbird are littered with bugs that are half a decade to sometimes as long as two decades old. There are something like 40,000+ verified bugs in Firefox core.
Instead of those bugs getting fixed, we get shit nobody asked for like massive UI overhauls that everyone hates, integration of SaaS shit like Pocket, secretive data-collecting force-installed plugins for a media conglomerate's TV show (!), and so on.
Maybe they could free up some resources by firing some of the numerous product and project managers, while also moving their offices to places other than "the most expensive zipcodes in the most expensive real estate markets all over the world", while also trimming the CEO's pay, which has gone up even as market share has plunged; she's failing upwards.