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1. ok1234+Mh[view] [source] 2026-01-02 04:29:02
>>xpe+(OP)
100% agree.

If it's someone else's project, they have full authority to decide what is and isn't an issue. With large enough projects, you're going to have enough bad actors, people who don't read error messages, and just downright crazy people. Throw in people using AI for dubious purposes like CVE inflation, and it's even worse.

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2. throwa+lI[view] [source] 2026-01-02 09:29:14
>>ok1234+Mh
The trouble here is that github issues is crap. Most bug trackers have ways to triage submissions. When a rando submits something, it has status "unconfirmed". Developers can then recategorize it, delete it, mark it as invalid, confirm that it's a real bug and mark it "confirmed", etc. Github issues is mostly a discussion system that was so inadequate that they supplemented it with another discussion system.
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3. codefl+6O[view] [source] 2026-01-02 10:28:00
>>throwa+lI
> Most bug trackers have ways to triage submissions. When a rando submits something, it has status "unconfirmed". Developers can then recategorize it, delete it, mark it as invalid, confirm that it's a real bug and mark it "confirmed", etc.

As far as I'm aware, most large open GitHub projects use tags for that kind of classification. Would you consider that too clunky?

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4. eqvino+2w1[view] [source] 2026-01-02 16:06:14
>>codefl+6O
> As far as I'm aware, most large open GitHub projects use tags for that kind of classification. Would you consider that too clunky?

Speaking for another large open GitHub project:

Absofuckinglutely yes.

I cannot overstate how bad this workflow is. There seems to be a development now in other platforms becoming more popular (gitlab, forgejo/codeberg, etc.) and I hope to god that it either forces GitHub to improve this pile of expletive or makes these "alternate" platforms not be so alternate anymore so we can move off.

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