Comment by CrimsonRain
7 hours ago
Locking down pr is the wrong approach (for most). Just provide a subtab inside PR tab that shows PRs from new people. One tab for pr from contributors and users who already have PRs accepted in the repo.
Another tab from first time/no pr approved yet users. Maintainers can treat it as spam box if they want.
Occasionally, users can flag them as useful and maintainers can then look at them.
Give a button to move from others to PR tab.
Don't consider count of PRs inside others in the main count.
Agreed. So many things could be solved by smart UIs. This is pouring the baby out with the bathwater.
Heck, one could say "Chat" for GPTs was the summum of "smart" UIs (or "smarts" for an "optimal" UI: Chat ...)
... and there's an asymmetry there.-
> Locking down pr is the wrong approach (for most).
Depends on your goal no? If your goal is to not accept random contributions or PRs, then being able to disable PRs completely, seems like the perfect approach? Up until this change (which happened almost a year ago, FWIW), it was impossible to just have a read-only mirror on GitHub that didn't get hit with drive-by PRs that just waste time, for example: https://github.com/videolan/dav1d/pulls?q=is%3Apr+state%3Acl...
I'm glad we can finally completely disable it, as it seems to just confuse people when you're not actually accepting PRs.
I never thought I’d see the day where somebody who works at the DoD would spend their spare time trying to get random open source projects (even one that already has a CoC) to accept the Contributors Covenant via GitHub pull requests. We truly are living in an enlightened age.
> September 2026 - Created 670 commits in 80 repositories
> I never thought I’d see the day where somebody who works at the DoD would spend their spare time
He didn't.
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They didn't. They made the senseless PR in 2022, but only worked at DoD for a whole month so far, seems to have joined in October.
I think it takes a certain type of person to join that department at this time, so make of that what you will. Certainly seems like they've "turned their life around", for better or worse.