[gochi]

Closed doesn't mean resolved, it means closed. Closing issues just shifts them to another tab, doesn't remove them entirely. What you propose, a filter to hide these, is exactly what has been done just through the official open/closed filters.

[layer8]

This is not accurate. When searching for issues, users won’t find closed issues by default. When issues are linked, closed issues are rendered differently (struck through). You can’t comment on them anymore without reopening them, and reopening them is often discouraged or not enabled at all. It is a drastically different state.

[rezonant]

Either you are thinking of other project management tools or assuming that some of the "stale issue locking" and automated issue management tools that some larger projects use are default.

On GitHub, it is true that the Issues search shows only open issues by default, but I think users are quite aware that they may need to search for closed issues, especially since it's unlikely they are on the absolute latest version of a package, especially when debugging problems in production. Additionally, some projects close issues once the mainline has addressed them even if the fix isn't in a released version.

GitHub does not render closed issues as struck through, and it does not by default lock conversations on closed issues.

EDIT: I am not taking a side on whether or not it's a good idea to do this sort of "bankruptcy" mass close.

[rimunroe]

Wait what? Since when can’t you respond on a closed issue without reopening it? I’ve partaken in lengthy discussions on closed issues without them reopening. Obviously you can’t reply to locked issues of course, but that’s a separate thing.

[eddythompson80]

most of that is not really true. where are closed issues rendered struck through? It's up to the repo to lock closed issues or not, and it doesn't appear this repo did that.

[blitzar]

In my project a ticket that is open / closed / tagged timbuktu means whatever I want it to mean.

Personally I am not going to assume that people are competent enough to check the open issues but too lazy to check the closed issues, or simply too dumb to understand a comment like "closed because I am not going to fix this".

[Falkon1313]

Closed does mean resolved. One way or another. If it's not resolved, it's still open. If the ticket was improperly marked closed, that just means someone else has to create a new ticket for the unresolved issue.

[growse]

"wontfix" is a perfectly good issue resolution.