> My quick exploration has showed that there are many older issues which were 
> fixed in the mean time, but the issue remained open ...

There are a number of tests for specific issue numbers in Nim/tests to prove 
that an issue was resolved and to guard against regressions. Would it make 
sense to make such a test mandatory for reporting technical issues? They could 
get their own issues directory where all tests are expected to fail. Solved 
issues would become visible by their "test" failing to fail, they would then be 
moved to Nim/tests.

Upside: issue reporters would have to provide technically valid demo code which 
would become a regression guard later.

Downside: a higher threshold for reporting issues.

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