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Do you think stale issues or those for bugs which are unlikely to be fixed should be closed? Why / why not?

Stalebot in particular annoys me. “This issue hasn’t been worked on in X days so we’re gonna assume it’s no longer an issue. Please go to the effort of filing a new issue if you wanna, but honestly we’ll probably ignore that too.” It’s just riles me up!

Saying that I can see the value in triaging issues and flagging them as “unlikely to be worked on”. That’s honest to the reporter, gives them a change to provide more evidence why that might be the wrong call, and allows maintainers to see the wood for the trees.