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czw., 6 lip 2023 o 13:56 Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org>
napisał(a):

> It hadn't occurred to me that it might be a bot. Given that, I'm going
> to go ahead and close these when I see them. If an actual human being
> objects, it can be reopened. Thanks.
>
> On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 12:10 AM Henning Schmiedehausen
> <henn...@schmiedehausen.org> wrote:
> >
> > This is most likely a bot "warming up" by contributing to some well-known
> > (high-reputation) repository. Merging those will allow them to build a
> > reputation for things like "sell stars for github repos".
> >
> > - https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars
> > - https://dagster.io/blog/fake-stars
> >
> > Straight up "don't merge", ask the person to not send in PRs like this
> > (there are sometimes newbies but most likely it is a bot), if they keep
> > doing it, report them to GH, they actually take a dim view on this.
> >
> > This is the equivalent of "me too spam" in the end times of the usenet.
> >
> > -h
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Jul 5, 2023 at 6:05 AM Elliotte Rusty Harold <elh...@ibiblio.org
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Lately I've noticed a few random PRs from first time contributors that
> > > use some automated refactoring tool on our code for no obvious reason.
> > > Here's an example:
> > >
> > > https://github.com/apache/maven-assembly-plugin/pull/131
> > >
> > > These refactorings don't seem helpful and don't IMO improve the code in
> > > any way.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure what's going on here. Perhaps Maven is getting used as an
> > > example in a training course or class somewhere. Perhaps someone is
> > > evaluated on the number of Github PRs they create or get merged.
> > >
> > > I'm inclined to close these without further comment. Thoughts?
> > >
> > > --
> > > Elliotte Rusty Harold
> > > elh...@ibiblio.org
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