Saltstack has now 3699 open issues
github.com... and I always wonder how healthy an open source project or at least the teams’ community spirit is when there are that many open issues.
The saltstack quality/release cycle may be the cause of some of the pileup.
I experienced a minor issue with saltstack recently and submitted a new issue. Turns out the saltstack devs had already addressed the issue, but the fix was staged for release weeks later. Between the time I reported my issue and the release of 2017.7.3 this week, my issue was marked as related to a half dozen reports of the behavior in different circumstances.
While regression testing is a good thing your infrastructure software is a Good Thing, the process of staging known bug fixes will tend to multiple the number of open issues as multiple users report their findings.
FWIW, Python has 6403 open issues. The oldest was created on 2001-06-14 .