@markstos @futzle Here's an extensive guide that suggests some strategies: https://apenwarr.ca/log/20171213
@joepie91 @futzle That’s for commercial teams. Motivating and managing time of volunteers is a different ball of wax.
The solution for open source communities is not for the current volunteers to do even more work, it’s for more volunteers.
Stale bot creates time for volunteers by automating some work. That stale ticket was going to get closed or ignored by a human if not closed by a bot. Sorry.
@markstos @futzle I have read the whole thing. No, it is not just for commercial teams, that is just the context in which it is explained.
I have also been doing open-source development and community management for some 15 years by this point so I understand perfectly well how volunteer work works, thank you.
@markstos @futzle (Also, if you want more volunteers, a good start would probably be to recognize that people submitting detailed bugs are *also* contributors, and not indiscriminately closing their issues without ever resolving them, which is functionally equivalent to telling them you don't care about their work.)