On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Guido van Rossum <gu...@python.org> wrote: > Occasionally I receive a sequence of emails from GitHub where a PR is > requesting my review by some user, the-knights-who-say-ni responds with a > CLA request, and then Bedevere closes it, without comment. Latest example: > https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5693 > > This seems to be some kind of user error -- the GitHub description is > typically something like "<user> wants to merge 398 commits into master from > 3.5". But this happens so frequently I would like to prevent this user error > from happening in the first place. > > Does anyone understand what these users are doing that causes such PRs to be > created?
This is because GitHub allows anyone logged into the site to click the "New pull request" button on the branches page (https://github.com/python/cpython/branches). I reported this to GitHub several months ago and the last word was that they were "discussing it internally"; I'll bug them about it again. -- Zach _______________________________________________ python-committers mailing list python-committers@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-committers Code of Conduct: https://www.python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
