[cbsks]

The "help wanted" label on some of the GitHub issues[0] is interesting to me. Presumably there are Microsoft employees who are being paid to work on Calculator, are they trying to crowd-source their jobs? I should convince my company to open source the project I am working on so I can offload some of my work too ;)

[0]: https://github.com/Microsoft/calculator/issues?q=is%3Aissue+...

[WorldMaker]

It's something of a GitHub-wide standard/best-practice to have a "help wanted" or "probably easy" or "good first issue" label:

https://help.github.com/en/articles/helping-new-contributors...

It's the Open Source issue tracker equivalent of the "Welcome mat". It doesn't necessarily mean that Microsoft's employees here need help, but it certainly shows that they welcome it.

(Which is a very useful indicator for engagement and shows presumably some stake in actually continuing to develop Calculator out in the open, as opposed it being a one time or rarely-if-ever code drop.)

[neop1x]

maybe it become so complex that it's hard to maintain so they seek the community to maintain it for them for free so they can focus on selling the OS it runs on. ;)