I feel like I'm missing something.
Once you have governance that people stick around for, you can decide to do anything
Have a repo that has a committee of AI models deciding what to merge. Inform them of the goals of the project and that they should only allow positive changes but people are allowed to make adversarial PRs.
It can be more active because the committee can meet on demand. Then people and AI's can attempt to bend the project to their wills.
Anyone makes a PR, there's a vote and highest voted one gets merged every week. It's marvelous.
I guess people just desire a certain amount of structure to their chaos :)
If anyone wants to run their own project in this way I open sourced the code to do so under the GitConsensus[3] project. There's a Github App (which may not still work, but if there's interest I'll restart it) and a "run it yourself" python library and CLI you can run from Github Actions[4].
2. https://github.com/ScreepsQuorum/screeps-quorum
I wonder if this has the potential to build a "community" that will take this into a completely different direction, or if it will neatly stay within the initial boundaries.
Beautifully executed