[flohofwoe]

The number of open issues doesn't tell much about the health of the project, especially on a bare-bones bug tracker like Github.

For instance: how many of those are actual bugs versus feature requests versus just questions.

Of the actual bugs, how many of those are actually critical and need fixing?

As long as incoming tickets are looked at and prioritized, and those tickets that come out on top are fixed in a timely manner all is good.

The team also just might not close any 'stale' issues that never made it to the top of the priority queue (some projects automatically close stale tickets after 1 month of inactivity, which is arguably worse).

FWIW the PR page is in much better shape: 11 Open vs 3664 Closed.