Ben Winding personal blog

GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy

blog.benwinding.com published 2021-01-162 min read

Stale Bot’s are a type of automated bot on Github, which locks issues which are “stale” (as in have no recent activity). This seems like a helpful tool at first, but in reality it’s terrible for all p

Points

288

HN comments

156

Submissions

1

Cited by

0 commenters

Software EngineeringTools & Productivity2021

Related posts from the same era

The End of the Redis Adventure

Salvatore Sanfilippo (antirez)20202,282 points294 commentscited by 10 details

Deno 1.0

Deno Blog20202,081 points583 comments details

MacOS Catalina: Slow by Design?

Allan Odgaard20202,031 points1,122 commentscited by 5 details

Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

Jonas Degrave20222,029 points908 commentscited by 16 details

The Day AppGet Died

Keivan Beigi20201,930 points655 commentscited by 17 details

Goodbye, Clean Code

Dan Abramov20201,678 points1,117 commentscited by 7 details