I'm not sure a separate additional ML would enhance the situation, the combined volume is low enough to let them stay together.
But resurrection & real use of patchwork (or any other consensus web tracker) would be a plus for at least some of us newcomers from different horizons. I can understand the repulsion against some of them, but a PR-like enabled one could ease the on-boarding of new contributors. So if it's acceptable to committers, why not try to use one a bit more regularly ? -- Vincent Legoll