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Request to the LW team: Clean up the list of open Github issues. In the past I've frequently looked at that page and declined to submit an issue because that seemed pointless with 600+ open ones. Eventually I did begin to submit issues and even got quick responses, which I found surprising given the backlog. But now that I've actually begun skimming the backlog (oldest first), it appears that a significant fraction of old open issues are resolved but unclosed.
In any case, a stale Github backlog makes it hard for outside contributors a) before submitting a new issue, to check whether there's already an open issue on the topic; b) to contribute their own pull requests (as they can't be sure that the issue is actually unresolved, rather than merely marked as open; example); c) to judge whether the state of development is healthy or not (e.g. there's no point in submitting bug reports to a Github repository that looks unmaintained); etc.
If it's infeasible or prohibitively expensive to identify these issues by hand, presumably either AI or outside contributors could assist in that. For example, I just skimmed a few pages of Github issues and made suggestions to close 12 of them.
I understand that that's obviously the counter-perspective, it just seems so wild to me. I'd love to see or do a dialogue on this, with anyone on the team where it would matter if they changed their mind on deprioritising this topic.