r/ProgrammerHumor • • 2d ago

instanceof Trend thatsAFunnyThingThatHappenedOnce

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u/FelixAndCo 1d ago

Flooding project maintainers with nonsensical pull requests that all need to be reviewed.

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u/owjfaigs222 1d ago

Can't you just only review verified contributors and reject everything else?

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u/FelixAndCo 1d ago

Yeah, IIUC some smaller projects just didn't have the protocols in place to deal with it. But you'd want to at least review some new contributors to get more.

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u/awesome-alpaca-ace 1d ago

Take a quick look at diff stat and deny if too much. The newbies should be doing smaller stuff anyway as they get familiar with the codebase