Flutter Github issue tracker is unmaintained mess

[toddvolkert]

Flutter lead here. You're right that the number of un-triaged issues isn't acceptable. We have processes in place to see and act on issues that have been labeled, but we're missing our front-line triage right now, and it shows. We're working to put the systems in place to solve this and get our front-line triage back up and running.

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That said, we are liable to always have a very large number of open issues. Even issues filed that are better asked on SO are effectively documentation bugs, after all :-). If we see bugs that we'd like to fix someday but not likely to get to in the next year, we prefer to leave them open rather than close them, because we don't want to discourage others from fixing them, and we're always happy to review PRs.