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by quarnster 4618 days ago
For this project in particular in its current state, I don't need people pointing out where it's broken. I know that it's broken and close to useless in fact and that there's a huge list of things to fix, implement or improve.

So if closing up the issues section gets rid of this unneeded negative reinforcement, that's a good thing and working exactly as intended.
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josephlord 4618 days ago
It is absolutely your choice to have issues or not and as you describe the current project status it is almost certainly the right choice for the moment.

If you intend to the issues up when you reach another state (e.g. widely usable) then indicating that the not accepting issues is a temporary state would be good. I completely understand not wanting issues raised when you already have dozens of things that you know that you need to do already.

From a user point of view the issues list is something I often look at before even using a project to see the activity, scale of the current problems people are having. I also find it a useful source of answers/workarounds. That doesn't mean that you can't be decisive about what issues you choose to work on (from a user perspective a clear response of "no time to work on this issue, send a PR if you sort it" is better than silence).

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rattray 4618 days ago
If you file the issues yourself, you can show to everyone else that you're working on them. That's exactly the kind of communication ST is lacking. Plus, you'll learn about bugs you didnt encounter, so they can be fixed (by you or others) before you have to hit them yourself.
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kelnos 4617 days ago
Give the guy a chance to write a functioning editor first. I'm sure he'll reconsider opening up the issue tracker after the thing is actually useful, and maybe has a few more contributors to share the load.

No one is entitled to anything with open source, not even support or a bug tracker. The author is trying to provide an open source alternative to a closed source product controlled by an uncommunicative company. He deserves support and help, not people telling him what to do.

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