I don’t use GitHub for personal projects since Microsoft bought it. I use GitHub solely for issues, pull requests and authorizations.
- Closing issues is a serious problem for open source development.
- I’m researching the closing phenomenon and its common patterns.
- The single goal of issues is making tools better.
- I created 1200+ issues on GitHub. Issues that I created or participated in.
- I read documentation, search for information in Google and repository’s discussions/issues/pull requests before posting issues.
- Writing issues is highly thankless free work. It takes a lot of time, and often it’s wasted if a project is maintained by closers.
- If a user’s issues are closed without resolving problems described in them, of course, a user hasn’t a wish to contribute projects of the same maintainers.