The GitHub closed issue rebound effect
Close an issue on GitHub asking him or her to take the question to Stackoverflow, then wait for the inevitable.
In 9 out of 10 cases, you will get a new notification on the now red and closed issue. And if you are a maintainer hooked on sadomasochism, you will open it and read some angry remarks saying “This looks like a big and fat bug to me!! You should reopen and fix this, asap! Hello!!?”
A question is almost always a bug in the eye of the issue reporter.
- The two fellows in the lame comic above is Andrew S. Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds.
This is a post in the GitHub Maintainer Rules series. Posts in this series:
- May 02, 2017 – The GitHub closed issue rebound effect
- Mar 20, 2016 – GitHub Maintainer Rule #2: Do Not Commit and Run!
- Jan 28, 2016 – GitHub Maintainer Rule #1: Always Say You’re Sorry!