Comment by jayflux
5 years ago
Hi Andrenotgiant - Could you not limit submissions to only labelled issues? That way it’s opt in and you reduce spammy PRs.
Many maintainers put “Hacktoberfest” labels on issues they’re happy for newcomers to work on.
5 years ago
Hi Andrenotgiant - Could you not limit submissions to only labelled issues? That way it’s opt in and you reduce spammy PRs.
Many maintainers put “Hacktoberfest” labels on issues they’re happy for newcomers to work on.
We could change it to be opt-in only, but the participants who are creating spammy PR's have already shown they don't read rules, so I think they would continue to create the same PR's.
That's why, to deal with the immediate issue we're creating an obvious, even lower-effort route for the impatient participants to take (follow a guide to create 4 PR's on your own repo) - and longer term we'll make bigger changes (maybe including an opt-in only model) that solve the perverse incentive issues that seem to be driving this PR spam.