Comment by j2kun
7 hours ago
In my main project we added a new requirement that all new contributors meet a maintainer in a non-textual format before their first PR is merged. Seems to work well for a small project.
7 hours ago
In my main project we added a new requirement that all new contributors meet a maintainer in a non-textual format before their first PR is merged. Seems to work well for a small project.
Only if you have maintainers everywhere. I live in a small city in the middle of the US - how far is it to a maintainer? 4 hours to Kansas City, or fly to San Francisco? Either way the burden seems far too high.
Non-textual can mean audio or video call, not necessarily in person.
Isn't the burden being that high the point? It keeps a small team who all know each other working on it, and everyone who does get on the team has some high investment in the project.
Like a video/phone call?
Indeed, a request for a short video call filters out most of the people who are looking to pad their resume with LLM-automated contributions, while adding an extra layer of welcome to genuine newbies who want to join the community.
I'm not sure if AI can do those today, but they probably can in the near future. (probably we will be able to see obvious "that can't be human" for a while longer)
It already can and it’s a big problem in recruitment. But for PRs I suspect it isn’t a big concern because this filter is to weed out PR spam from people who want to invest time in the project.
If you (or even your pet LLM) is able to set up v4l-loopback and some convincing realtime image/audio gen I think that's a signal that your PRs might be worth reading.
The point at which an AI can convince me in a video call revolving around a complex social interaction like an introduction and discussion of interests that it's human I'm gonna go ahead and let it have the title.
What an elegantly common sense solution. It's also probably a really good way to make contacts with interesting people.