Large projects accumulate a large number of issue reports over time. This is normal. Typically for a "successful" project the rate of new issues being reported will exceed the rate of issues being fixed. Hence the growth.

But what are they to do about this ever-growing pile of bugs?

How I put this site together and why.

Given a set of tasks, incentives are often aligned towards dropping a task rather than allowing for perpetual accretion of delays.