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Got hit a while back with a GitHub account that was "bombing" OSS projects with Docker image "best practice" fixes related to Deb "recommends" or some other suc
by Rapzid 5y ago
Got hit a while back with a GitHub account that was "bombing" OSS projects with Docker image "best practice" fixes related to Deb "recommends" or some other such stuff. Most of their history for the past year was exclusively opening these PRs with canned messages.
Some of the projects were very large(Apache Arrow, a large Google project IIRC), and they were opening commits up against largely test images.. And a LOT of them. On one of the larger projects somebody rightfully asked "What's the value add here?" who was promptly ignored by what I can only assume is a project manager who start humoring the submitter by trying to help them get this entirely useless work merged. It turned into an epic fail-whale causing all the projects tests to fail and that initial dev spent "too much time" trying to untangle it all before putting their foot down and reverted the changes.
Other project maintainers got wise to these fishy PRs and after inspecting the submitters history just started telling them to sod off.