@jcsteh @svenja Interesting. I have contributed to FOSS projects (commercial and non-commercial) since 2003, and I don't recall stalebots being a thing before GH. Now that they made that practice widespread, there's a "social contagion" to other non-GH-hosted projects, for sure.

Debian, KDE, Gnome, Mozilla don't have stalebots, but it's not all rosy. For example, the KDE bugzilla was known to be a "scream into the void" place, until the KDE Bug Squad was formed to triage issues and reduce the friction for developers to engage with them. So far this has been a great success, but it requires people to help.

Also, there's a case for declaring "issue bankruptcy" a few times per decades, for example after a major rewrite. I would take less offense if issues were closed after a year, but 30 days is completely nuts indeed.