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For an idea of the magnitude of this problem, just do a search for recently-created pull requests with the text "improve docs": https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3A
by teraflop 6y ago
For an idea of the magnitude of this problem, just do a search for recently-created pull requests with the text "improve docs": https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+%22improve+docs%22 https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+%22improve+docs%22
By my count, the rate of these PRs has increased from about 20/hour (averaged over the past month) to about 200/hour (in the last 12 hours), with the vast majority of the recent ones being worthless spam.
- mkl 6y agoThat link didn't work for me, but this does: https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=is%3Apr+%22improve+docs%22&s=created&type=Issues https://github.com/search?o=desc&q=is%3Apr+%22improve+docs%2... "Update readme" is similarly terrifying: https://github.com/search?o=desc&p=2&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+%22update+readme%22&s=created&type=Issues https://github.com/search?o=desc&p=2&q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+%22...
- danieldk 6y agoWow, that is just terrible. Not just the wasted hours of maintainers. But many of those PRs set off CI builds, leading to more wasted energy and potential carbon emissions.