I understand the frustrations around closing somebody’s PR as stale, but I
also think that there is value in informing the contributors I this is
never getting solved/fixed/looked at, if this is still important please go
over there instead.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 1:55 PM Robert Muir <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 29, 2021 at 2:49 PM Michael McCandless
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Could we maybe instead bulk-add a comment explaining the split and how
> to take the PR forwards if someone (in the future) has itch/time?
> >
> > I know we humans love to clean things up, but I think leaving such
> "unclean" things open serves an important purpose.  They all had importance
> to at least one person at one point in time, and likely many of them are
> still relevant if they piqued someones curiosity to dig back into them.
> Closing them makes them harder to find for the future developer.
> >
> > I'm sure some of them are already resolved/duplicates too.  If only we
> could divine which are which.
> >
> >
>
> +1, I'd rather not auto-close PRs. I'm always frustrated by this when
> I see it in other trackers. Is there a rush to close these for some
> reason?
>
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