Okay, now you might as well state which person you are talking about. Who
says their mentor hasn't encouraged them to do this?

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 12:32 PM Lrupert via Python-Dev <
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> > Gaming the system doesn't end up working well in the end anyway. The
> first time the gamers try to get a job interview and can't explain how
> they'd do a code review—something GitHub says they've done hundreds or
> thousands of times—the whole thing will fail.
>
> Observably, it feels like they are doing this for core privileges (if they
> don't already exist, they are a member of the python org?). Every time I
> see one of those PRs (e.g add test for X, add delete redundant variables
> for Y), the author seem to be cc-ing their mentor. This gives a bad
> impression to others about their intentions (constant contribution of
> trivial / low quality stuff with little-to-no-gain to achieve a higher
> number of commits, since it is a visible metric).
>
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