PS I noticed you closed previous issues when I said somebody has to do it

I totally get that it's a volunteer driven project - most FOSS I use are this way.
the closing action by me is not specific to geany repo - i've closed around 50 issues in last several days
anyways, now that u mention this, and as you've been kind, I'll explain it to u:

To put it concisely:

To make things a bit more mechanised & determinisitic, & to keep my emotions in check.

Read further for details:

To put time and efforts into an issue, waiting for months hanging in between, to hear no response, while still having to respond to avoid getting staled and in the end still getting it closed eventually as stale and "fixed" by a stupid outdated bot - without any way to re-close as "not planned". No no, no thanks.

Closing issue is a total harmless way that:

yeah, it has reached a conclusion (be via discussion, or lack thereof), and I am done with it till any further activity
if nobody cares about the issue then good - 'ts closed already
else if somebody cares (i.e. 'ts important for the project, or someone able comes over), then even better as it can be reopened just like that - I do NOT put any restrictions on reopening. (but it seems people assume otherwise for the latter for reasons unknown).

That is, it:

covers both the cases very well
fails only in searching for those issues - but the issue tracker is responsible for that with lack of filter & UI button for it.

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