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To add another example: one of VS Code's releases has interesting statistics of it's issues (https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_28).

They did some housekeeping for a month and were able to close 3918 issues, but in the meantime 2187 issues were created.

Open source project management at this scale is truly hard indeed.

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Wonder if Mozilla can/want to "out source" the bug triad and to current CS students or team of CS students.

Pro: Train new students to work on real work development processes, issues, teams.

Good for students' resumes.

Con: Not sure if completely legal if it is not pay.

Also might create conflicts with current employees of the company.

The webpack team has a simple solution: they have a bot that closes inactive issues. The issuer need not keep the issue alive by posting into the issue.

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