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>I'm not sure if this is a sign of poor project managment, development stall or poor community engagement

You missed another possibility: it being perfectly normal.

If you check any large-ish project you'll find 100s or 1000s of unsolved issues and stale PRs.

And I'm talking about seasoned, used in production, products, from MySQL to Chromium and whatever...

I think issues left open > 12 months is antithetical to the idea of lean/agile and could be a sign of suboptimal project management.

But don’t get me wrong, I <3 Ruby and am excited about Crystal.

>issues left open > 12 months is anti-thetical to the idea of lean/agile

OSS doesn't care about lean/agile, those are ideologies consultants sell to enterprises.

Things are done when they are done.

> I think issues left open > 12 months is antithetical to the idea of lean/agile and could be a sign of suboptimal project management.

Totally depends on the nature of the project, its policies and users.

Any popular FOSS project that allows anyone to post a bug, and doesn't just close unattended bug reports (which is bad imho), is likely to end up with some (usually minor) bugs open over 12 or more months.

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