After using Github for a little over a decade, I have encountered a handful of people who could become angry after I close their Github issues without fulfilling their requests. Since I’m more concerned about the people who were similarly disappointed but silently walked away, I want to explain in this post what I mean when closing an issue, to clarify the potential misunderstandings.
Usually I try hard not to close issues without a response. I did close a few out of the thousands of issues that I have dealt with over the years, but these ones were often far below the …