if you subscribe to github notifications for our project, i'm sorry. i should have sent a warning that I was going to go through a lot of our our open issues and close ones that are fixed, stale, or won't fix.
good news is that i'm done for now and reduced the issue count by 150 or so (largely because we've addressed the substance but were not very good about closing). bad news now that i started, i might keep going to address the remaining 300 issues. -r
