[aendruk]

Closing is one thing—at least you can still use the issue as a communal gathering point to make slow progress. The casual locking on the other hand is mystifying.

And so often there’s the added gaslighting of a project that provides some rationale for closing but then inexplicably locks too as if that’s the same.

[bombcar]

Closing is great - it’s an honest assessment that “we’re not going to work on it.”

It still turns up in search and you can comment on it (some even reopen automatically if you do).

Locking automatically is just the worst - we don’t care, we won’t care, and you’ll never get us to care.

[5e92cb50239222b]

I like these kinds of statements, they let you know right off the bat that your time is better spent elsewhere. People who see this as normal will screw you over sooner or later in other ways, e.g. by changing licenses or needless rewriting over and over and over again. At least that's been my experience.