That stale bot is quite the sight. It seems the Signal team has fully adopted the ostrich strategy for dealing with issues.
I _get_ that I don’t have any right to free maintenance, but the stale bot paints some veneer of process around a maintainer thinking “issue looks hard, doesn’t affect me, so I don’t care”. I would just so much prefer them to be honest and just say that rather than passive-aggressively send me emails every 30 days warning that my issue is becoming stale or whatever.
I respect that a developer doesn't have to fix an issue I report, but it's only fair that the time I spent on gathering information and reporting the issue is respected. It should be triaged, valid reports should be marked as such and if it's never gonna be dealt with then it should be closed.
Not some kind of software development equivalent of stringing someone along as a side b***ch.
Side blotch? Side bleach?
This sort of "ADHD-driven development" that heavily biases towards novelty and ease over quality and stability is a real problem with a lot of software today.
It's disrespectful to the reporters' time and effort to keep pestering them with an inane bot. It doesn't fix the issues reported. It just makes the bot owner feel good that they have fewer tickets open.