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Why do you think hundreds of maintainers have to clean up their repos? What is your acceptable ratio of misuse to value add?

• Andoryuuta 6y ago
  To be honest, we are well beyond hundreds of maintainers that will need to clean up their repos. I've been crawling the "Improve Docs" spam issues since they started appearing. As far as I'm aware, there are already 4500+ repos which have had a low quality, single-line-change, "Improve Docs" PR opened in the past two days. Just to pull out a few repos out for example purposes: * 7 spam - https://github.com/seductivegeese/softi.es https://github.com/seductivegeese/softi.es * 8 spam - https://github.com/easydepot/websiteSwallower/pulls https://github.com/easydepot/websiteSwallower/pulls * 8 spam - https://github.com/tokio-rs/website https://github.com/tokio-rs/website * 13 spam - https://github.com/phpmyadmin/website https://github.com/phpmyadmin/website * 15+ spam - https://github.com/pyvec/elsa https://github.com/pyvec/elsa * 15+ spam - https://github.com/justicedemocrats/candidate-website https://github.com/justicedemocrats/candidate-website * 15+ spam - https://github.com/Salamek/blacklist https://github.com/Salamek/blacklist * 20+ spam - https://github.com/openmaptiles/www.openmaptiles.org https://github.com/openmaptiles/www.openmaptiles.org * 25+ spam - https://github.com/blitz-js/blitzjs.com https://github.com/blitz-js/blitzjs.com * 60+ spam - https://github.com/EdmontonPy/edmontonpy https://github.com/EdmontonPy/edmontonpy Heck, take look at the PRs and commit history of https://github.com/azmat21/UyghurWebsiteCrawler https://github.com/azmat21/UyghurWebsiteCrawler. It's been two days into October, and this repo has gotten 55 PRs. It hasn't ever gotten a single PR before this as far as I can tell.
  • neom 6y ago
    Not to be pedantic but I think there is some conflation here between PR/repo and maintainer? How do you define "low quality" hacktoberfest was originally also focused on people learning to code who could help clean up docs/fix typos etc.
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• xuki 6y ago
  So it was a net positive thing, and the suffering of some maintainers are acceptable, just so DigitalOcean can slap its name and claim it helps opensource? Just donate money or something man. Jesus fucking christ.
  • neom 6y ago
    Donate money to whom?
  • gdy 6y ago
    You have no idea what suffering is
• imtringued 6y ago
  I have seen some repos with 3 pages of spam PRs. It's drowning out legitimate PRs.