Dear community members,
As part of ongoing efforts to improve our project health and contributor experience, we will be systematically closing ‘stale’ issues across our GitHub repositories over the next few weeks.
Over the past several years, we’ve accumulated a large backlog of old tickets and issues, many of which haven’t seen any updates or activity in years. These older issues can make it hard for our team to find current, actionable items and create a sense that our backlog is larger or less focused than it really is.
To help clean this up, we plan to run an automated process that will close issues that were created more than 3 years ago and haven’t been updated or received comments in the past 2 years. When this happens, you’ll see a message like this:
This issue has been automatically closed as part of an organization-wide backlog review.
Reason: This issue was created [X years Y months] ago with no updates in the last [X years Y months].
If this is still relevant, please feel free to reopen it with updated context. We appreciate your contributions and want to ensure our issue tracker stays actionable.
We want to reassure you that we’re not deleting any old tickets, we’re just marking older, inactive issues as closed to help our small team keep our active backlog manageable and useful. If something you care about still needs attention, please feel free to reopen it with a new comment explaining why the issue still matters to you or start a new issue with fresh details.
Thanks for your understanding and for your participation in our community!