Repositories with 1k+ issues and / or 50+ pull requests are basically lost causes I would think..

1. Hard to recover properly
2. The same people that let it come to that point won't be the ones to be able to recover it in the first place

'lost cause' as in the project will just slowly because worse and worse in most ways, not that it's outright useless / non-functioning / ..

Does anyone have a counter-example of such a project that did recover?

In regards to h3rp1d3v's rant
https://devrant.com/rants/5883807/...

Nah, while ignored pull requests and tickets tend to rot a bit over time, that doesn't actually prevent you from directly going to the code. So in the worst case, you just drop all tickets and pull requests and continue from there.

But if you can spare a week for sifting through the tickets and filtering them for dupes and obvious bullshit (like feature requests), you can maybe profit from the bugs already being discovered.

And some of the neglected pull requests based on one of the last few commits may already ahve fixed some stuff.

@Oktokolo

Dropping all issues & prs?

I think most people that were engaged or wanted to engage in your project would take this as a big 'fuck you' and turn their backs on you.

By that logic the rust compiler is beyond saving

@12bitfloat Oh god 5k+ issues, oldest from 2016

Bring into the equation an amount of days since last merge (few PRs), just to be fair.

@vintprox Of course, though I don't think healthy projects should be able to boast with their 'impressive number' either way (∩❛ڡ❛∩)

@ElectroArchiver Yes, and rightly so. Hence it is called the worst case.