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by traceroute66 985 days ago
> We have a bug reported back in 2020 that got closed recently without any action because it became stale

One of my pet hates is the (ab)use by repo maintainers of the auto-close-when-stale feature on Github.

What useful purpose does it serve beyond making the repo maintainers look good because they have a low number of open issues ?

It doesn't actually address the issue. Its the virtual equivalent of brushing under the carpet.