GitHub has become a major platform for hosting code and making it more visible. Many projects hosted on GitHub rely on the Issues feature to provide a way for users to report issues with the project. Unfortunately there is a low cost to entry in posting an issue. The effect of this is a lot of noise relative to the popularity of the project. A solid example of this getting out of hand is the Visual Studio Code issue tracker with over 5000 issues total.
While a new feature was added around May to provide an initial filter, it's not a complete solution and even has a way to easily pull back to the original tracker. There is also a lack of rich metadata around issues. One can only look for labels (which even then have to be applied by someone with permissions) or attempt some sort of natural language parsing. This barrier means that automation around issue filtering is not feasible f