RE: "Issue Theft", people complaining about people stealing issues etc. If your issue was stolen you were probably too slow! In general the most it is reasonable to ask for for issue exclusivity is 24h, asking beyond that is slowing the project down. i.e. if someone hasn't fixed an issue in more that 24h, you SHOULD steal it! This project will not survive waiting on people who grab issues and never complete them
(Not calling anyone out- it's reasonable to be upset about issue theft, but also we have little time to do a lot of stuff)