> That means that when we close the issue, we believe it has a high chance of being fixed

I agree with this iff it's being done manually after reading the issue. stalebot is indiscriminate and as far as "owing" the user, that's fair, but I'd assume that the person reporting the bug is also doing you a favor by helping you make things more stable and contributing to your repo/tool's community.

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afdbcreid 2 hours ago | parent [-]

I partially agree, but even with stalebots nobody is measuring the maintainers' productivity. So when they made the choice to use stalebots, they did that because they believe that's best for the project. It's different from corporate.

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		Nobody is measuring their productivity, but people definitely look at how many open issues they have and potentially how long those issues have existed. They’re likely incentivized to close issues for appearances.