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Stale bot FAQ
It's a bot that closes issues after a certain time period, usually 1 year (subject to change). First the bot marks the issue as "wontfix", then closes after 15 more days if that tag is not removed.
We receive many more issues then we can sensibly process. We perform a scan of new issues to check for important bugs in current releases, but after that we generally leave tickets to see how much interest it has or how much users*time it is costing.
Even then, a good proportion of tickets reach a point where a year has passed without activity, the stale bot will then start processing it.
Yes, just write a comment like "bump" and then delete the comment. That will reset the activity counter for another year.
If you're feeling very helpful and it's a bug report, double checking whether it still happens on the latest release is very useful in case it doesn't and you can close the ticket.
If you didn't get to the ticket before it closed, feel free to request it be re-opened. However, if it's a boundary case feature request that affect very few users it's likely not to be re-opened.
We didn't, the bot did. The bigger question is why has there been no interest on the issue for a year. As mentioned, you can stop the issue from closing if you don't feel it should.
We haven't passed any judgement on the validity, or lack of, of your issue. We just haven't, probably, spent more than the initial quick scan looking at it.