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Ask HN: Which GitHub repo has the most open issues?

by hguhghuff on 5/15/19, 6:56 PM with 6 comments

• by ponyous on 5/16/19, 12:13 PM

  Why would that metric be useful? Geniuenly wondering. I learned in the past that open issues are not indicator of how useful the library is.

  Example: Worked on a project that used a library with 150 open and 3500 closed issues. Turns out it was a disaster we had to replace. It was disaster mainly because most closed issues were closed by a bot after 14 days and we didn't realise this.

• by mtmail on 5/15/19, 7:23 PM

  https://github.com/rust-lang/rust currenly has 4738 open and 25,000 closed.

  https://github.com/golang/go currently has 4412 open and 27,000 closed.

  https://github.com/npm/npm had 2166 before moving to community,forum.

  https://github.com/ariya/phantomjs stopped at 1823 open.

  https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch currently has 1734 open and 18,000 closed.

• by thedevindevops on 5/16/19, 7:25 AM

  A very useful resource: https://www.codetriage.com/

• by jakeogh on 5/16/19, 9:16 AM

  https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues has 2,350 open and 14,371 closed