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by miku86 2045 days ago
Fully agree.

From a technical perspective: Ignoring leaves the loop open. I don't know: - if you ignore it on purpose - or if you don't want to solve it or - or if you don't have time or - or if you just missed it ...

That's when I would re-send the message or do something else. A Win-Win would be sending a small "won't-fix" or whatever.
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TillE 2045 days ago
> Ignoring leaves the loop open

Often that's what you want! Maybe I don't want to reject your bug report outright, maybe I'll get around to it in a few weeks or months or years. Or not, I dunno.

I've had my own issues and bugfix PRs on small projects ignored, that's fine. Nobody should ever have the expectation of a response on that kind of project.

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miku86 2045 days ago
The parents are talking about ignoring as a method to (implicitily) say no.

Ignoring: for the maintainer: open loop or maybe hidden closed loop (e.g. afraid of confrontation); for the requester: open loop.

The intention of saying no is a closed loop.

> Nobody should ever have the expectation...

Yes, but that's not a pragmatic solution. People sometimes DO have the expectation.

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