GitHub keeps getting better for open source maintainers

Open source software's reliance on maintainers necessitates productive time management, prompting the introduction of new GitHub features aimed at enhancing contribution quality and allowing maintainers to concentrate on crucial project aspects. One key feature is code review limits, which prevent unauthorized users from approving or requesting changes on pull requests, thus tackling the problem of spammy approvals. This feature, developed during an internal hackathon, enables maintainers to restrict code review permissions to users with specific access levels, applicable to individual repositories or across all repositories within an account. Additionally, the GitHub mobile app now allows maintainers to efficiently manage spammy issues and pull requests by enabling the closure of issues and user blocking directly from their phones. Alongside these updates, GitHub has introduced broader initiatives like Issue Forms, GitHub Discussions, and GitHub Sponsors to improve the open source experience, fostering stronger and more sustainable communities by facilitating actionable issue reporting, community engagement, and financial support for projects.