> I completely understand why some projects are in whitelist-contributors-only mode. It's becoming a mess.

That repo alone has 1.1k open pull requests, madness.

> That repo alone has 1.1k open pull requests, madness.

The UI can't even be bothered to show the number of open issues, 5K+ :)

Then they "fix it" by making issues auto-close after 1 week of inactivity, meanwhile PRs submitted 10 years ago remains open.

> issues auto-close after 1 week of inactivity, meanwhile PRs submitted 10 years ago remains open.

It's definitely a mess, but based on the massive decline in signal vs noise of public comments and issues on open source recently, that's not a bad heuristic for filtering quality.