Hm, a thought about GitHub Issues...

[stormerider]

I also participate in the Chef community, and I saw this post on their mailing list: http://www.getchef.com/blog/2014/07/03/cook-project-moving-to-github-issues/

The relevant part:

One missing part of the GitHub work flow is CLA checking. Without some sort of automation in place, we would be forced to do manual checking of pull requests against a list of approved contributors. Instead, the Supermarket will run Currybot, which will automatically check PRs against a database of CLAs, and apply labels to PRs so we can tell at a glance if we can accept the contribution.

It sounds like this might be something that's helpful for us to look into as well?