&gt; If we move off GitHub, we will immediately eliminate the random noise we get through issues.<p>&gt; At the same time, we&#x27;ll eliminate drive-by pull requests that also need reviewing.<p>I don&#x27;t think these are good reasons to move away from GitHub. If your project is <i>truly</i> popular, then the people who are filing these issues will follow you to your new home. You&#x27;ll get a short period of respite, and then you&#x27;ll be back where you were before. If your project is only popular <i>because</i> you&#x27;re on GitHub... then moving off will not only give you a respite, it will also destroy your user base.<p>This is why full-time software engineering teams have PMs. They act as an API for the engineers: helping others understand what sorts of requests can be made, what kinds of responses can be expected, and turning away abusive&#x2F;malformed traffic.<p>It simply sounds like this project is popular enough (and &gt;5000 issues in just over 2 years certainly qualifies as popular in my book) that it needs non-engineering attention. Get someone to join the team who wants to fill in a PM role.