[Python-Dev] Increase of Spammy PRs and PR reviews
As someone who is watching the python/cpython repository, I'm very used to see lots of traffic. But lately there have been a surge of spammy PRs which are about the same, generally very trivial subject but individually fixing each occurrence one by one: - Add coverage to X (tens of them, as separate PRs) - Make `test_xxx` executable with direct invocation (tens of them, as separate PRs) - Lint source with flake8, fix linting errors (stylistic changes) And lots of non-committer PR reviews that only approve. Am I the only one who feels like this is only done to 'grind' commits (get a higher number of commits into the repository, and boast about it)? In the past there were one or two people who would submit typo fixes, but most of them weren't making it continuously. The situation right now feels much worse than those.___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/7RGI4LUJSEKU2JUYSV7UMZ2CXRGAANEF/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
[Python-Dev] Re: Increase of Spammy PRs and PR reviews
> 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).___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3/lists/python-dev.python.org/ Message archived at https://mail.python.org/archives/list/python-dev@python.org/message/JZBQ2UYTXDCHADW4LEPGPE5SFLRHW5E3/ Code of Conduct: http://python.org/psf/codeofconduct/
