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Closing issues because they are unplanned is bad UX (opens in new tab)

Many projects close issues after a triage if the feature/bug is not planned. For example, the terraform-provider-aws uses a bot that detects stale issues (for example, I'm following this one and I'm getting periodic emails about it). If nobody comments for a period of time the issue gets closed.

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