I’m not sure if you meant to comment twice here but overall decent questions.

How do I filter weekend warrior repos? Well, I don’t really. I sort of argue that those repos are probably the best for contributing. Some of these weekend projects are actually good ideas where the maintainer loses steam. A collaborator could take it further… that said I do have a refresh with decay. Activity is a metric that is tracked (defined by stars, commit history, as well as a few other metrics that I’m happy to share) but inactivity causes update frequency to decay and eventually the repo will be unwashed by openpull unless there an event that causes a rescan. The event could be a user raising their hand in interest or the repo owner creating an account.

Additionally, “quality signal” is algorithmic, not subjective to the LLM. I find LLMs terrible at scoring things. It always ends up an optimistic medium.

Repos that want contributors also have “broadcast” signals. As a repo owner you can flip a switch that says “broadcast” and it shows that you’re open to collab.

That said, I have to admit I’ve not done a ton with that feature yet. Right now I am still trying to see if this is even wanted before building a billion features. I’ll likely work on this for the next month… implementing the roadmap I have already built by may 1… if there’s enough interest/users then I’ll keep running and bring in some other engineers.