I maintain unison, which had a vast number of issues, and have whittled
it down to <100. Some are fixed, and some have been closed as:
* requests for support or questions, and not bug reports (by unison
doctrine, should be via user mailinglist instead)
* complaints about packages that aren't right, without articulating a
bug in our source code
* old, and not revalidated on the most recent release. unison asks
people to update and retest and sets a 30-day timer to maybe close
if not. ("I can't because my distribution has X" is not
accepted as
a good reason, because it isn't true, and it's a choice.)
nut has 536 issues, which is really hard to look at, and many of them
are about old versions and/or questions. I bet a lot could be closed
with the above policy, which I suggestn adopting.
Greg