Dude, the project has 213 open requests and 19,074 handled. 1% of all requests are thus unhandled and people are complaining losing their minds about one of those 1%.
Calm the fuck down.
While I have no stance on the meme, I’d like to point out that just looking at raw numbers isn’t a sufficient counter argument for multiple reasons:
- Many projects use PRs to merge feature branches from maintainers, while outside PRs are left lying around
- I’ve seen people close their PRs in other projects after sitting around for a long time. How many of those 19,074 were withdrawn?
- The Mastodon repo used to have the stale bot enabled (might still be), e.g. in this random example. How many of those 19,074 were automatically closed?
- They also use the renovate bot. How many of those 19,074 were automatically submitted?
I actually went through and checked how many PRs were automatically submitted, we have:
dependabot-preview: 1,107dependabot: 2,279renovate: 1,126github-actions: 270
There might be more that I’ve missed (e.g. dependabot-preview isn’t listed as an app in the authors filter), but this adds up to 4,782 PRs, just over a quarter of total PRs. That’s a rather large deviation.
Again, not saying that you’re incorrect, but the numbers you mention could also occur in a project that is as bad as the meme describes.
