Comment by guidoiaquinti
5 hours ago
GitHub just recently added configurable PR limits for maintainers to help partially address this problem: https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request...
5 hours ago
GitHub just recently added configurable PR limits for maintainers to help partially address this problem: https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request...
> Draft pull requests will not count towards your limit.
Disappointing, it seems that those also need limits too, although the limit could be higher.
I could easily see the limit for PRs be at 1 for untrusted contributors, and drafts at 3-5.
I'd just limit the total. Otherwise people will use it to game the system.
I would not be at all surprised if Github adds a first party reputation system. It would be a clever way to increase network effects - imagine if you host on Codeberg you're inundated by AI PRs but on Github you can easily filter them out.
I can't see those pull request limits working very well. It's like trying to filter email spam by just rate limiting people. It's going to be annoying for the people you actually want to talk to, and you're still going to get at least 1 spam message from every spammer out there.
If we want to keep it objective, one metric can already be calculated based on the user history of the submitter. The spammers profile will be full of unmerged or abandoned prs. Just based on those statistics beginners might be close to zero rating but spammers would be negative.
Unless I totally missed that people are also making new accounts of each PR.