[jamesbelchamber]

> “I am closing this but this is interesting, head over to our forum/issues to discuss”

I really like the way Discourse uses "levels" to slowly open up features as new people interact with the community, and I wonder if GitHub could build in a way of allowing people to only be able to open PRs after a certain amount of interaction, too (for example, you can only raise a large PR if you have spent enough time raising small PRs).

This could of course be abused and/or lead to unintended restrictions (e.g. a small change in lots of places), but that's also true of Discourse and it seems to work pretty well regardless.

[warmwaffles]

Mailing lists are used as a filter to raise the barrier to entry to prevent people from contributing code that they have no intention of maintaining and leaving that to the project owners. Github for better or worse has made the barrier to entry much much lower and significantly easier for people to propose changes and then disappear.