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baranultoday at 8:01 AM1 replyview on HN

Zig very much could of moved all of their GitHub issues over to Codeberg, to be resolved, but chose not to do so. Thus left thousands of issues unsolved and stranded.

This maneuver was arguably obfuscated by the anti-LLM stance and finger pointing at Microsoft, but nevertheless, many still have noticed. Zig, for a long time, had been falling behind and doing poorly on their open to close ratio for resolving issues. It should be embarrassing to leave so many issues open.

Even if not accepting new GitHub issues, they have demonstrated an inability to resolve existing issues, except at an extremely slow pace. Considering there are just about no new issues on their GitHub repo, it is understandable if there are those that find the pace to close and amount of issues unacceptable or questionable, in addition to the clearly bad open to close ratio.


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smj-edisontoday at 8:25 AM

Did you read their migration post? They are thinking about it as COW, so they're using both issue trackers right now, but as soon as the update an issue it jumps straight to the Codeberg issue tracker. It's an unconventional way of doing it, but it's no conspiracy.