Issue trackers have two overlaid uses. First, they’re a way for maintainers to keep track of work they have to do, and second, they’re a way for the larger com

Issue trackers have two overlaid uses. First, they’re a way for maintainers to keep track of work they have to do, and second, they’re a way for the larger community (including users) to keep track of defects in the software. Declaring “issue bankruptcy” makes sense for the first use, but for the second, it’s erasing valuable information about the issues existing in the current version.