Open Source

Bugtrackers - a special kind of hell

Recently my priorities shifted from work for money to more leisure time, hobbies and contributing to causes important to me. As I am still developing software during work, I didn’t want to write code during my free time, too. Instead I thought it would be a good idea to contribute to open source by cleaning up bugtrackers, triaging bugs and discussing solutions. So I looked around and found some bugtrackers for software I use. Much to my disgust I found that nearly every bugtracker has thousands of open tickets, many open for years without change. It feels like a special kind of hell. Maybe I am only using the wrong software?
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