As a maintainer that just makes it worse. Familiarity with the code base is typically necessary to make a good quality contribution. Issues are a sign of love,

As a maintainer that just makes it worse. Familiarity with the code base is typically necessary to make a good quality contribution. Issues are a sign of love, imo, because they don’t want to stop using your project, they want it to improve. Of course there are also entitled and rude people. But we should not set the standards based on a-holes. > not a pile of discouraging issue reports This is such a strange way to look at software development. Discouraging?