The issue tracker does not empty itself. For a few hours, we make it try.
Reproduce, confirm, and close the ones that fixed themselves three versions ago. Not glamorous work, but it decides whether the tracker is something you can navigate or something everybody avoids.
We take a stack of issues and work through it together. If you have never tested a pull request before, this is the easiest possible place to learn. Someone will sit next to you for the first one.