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There are quite a few other, uh, interesting PRs for that repo. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls https://gi

There are quite a few other, uh, interesting PRs for that repo. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pulls https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/10/files https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/10/files https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18/files What is going on?

moneywoes 4y ago
Looks like one of those youtube comment scams that target teenagers
ushakov 4y ago
Hacktoberfest flashbacks intensifies https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/
iuri1 4y ago
This is truly "Epic": https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18#pullrequestreview-995968989 https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18#pullrequestrevie...
gruez 4y ago
Looking at the content of the OP and the PRs you linked, my first thought is "Is it Hacktoberfest[1] already?". I mean, seriously, what's up with the such low quality PRs? Is it common to have people spamming repos with trivial changes absent some sort of incentive? [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktoberfest_pull_request_spam/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktobe...
- ushakov 4y ago
  probably for resume? “Contributed quality improvements to Epic Games Unreal Engine” luckily, GitHub makes it terribly easy to verify how much and what you actually contributed
  - wonderbore 4y ago
    The problem here is that they’re not even trying. How can they not know that such PR would never be merged? For this reason I don’t think public contributions are why they send the PRs
    - ushakov 4y ago
      that might be obvious to me and you, but i don’t think the author knew
- fellellor 4y ago
  Sometimes fixing a typo would be a new coder’s first open source commit. It’s pretty stupid to assume every new PR would be a major new feature or bug fix. It makes OSS unnecessarily hostile to get into. Although this commit in question isn’t even that sadly.
- spatulon 4y ago
  The main repo I work on for my job is open-source, and yes, it happens fairly regularly that someone opens a nonsensical PR that might randomly perturb some Markdown or YAML file, or attempt to merge commits from some other developer's in-progress branch. I'd say we only get them about once every week or so, but then the repo is not anywhere near as high-profile as the Unreal Engine, nor as likely to be on the radar of children.
cyral 4y ago
Looks like Hacktoberfest PRs
viraptor 4y ago
It's the internet. People can therefore someone will. Increase the likelihood due to the project being game related.
withinrafael 4y ago
It's just very common GitHub spam/abuse. Suspect these are automated accounts trying to look legitimate by doing legitimate-ish things (e.g. cryptocurrency mining via PRs that require one-time approval).
smegma2 4y ago
while(vbucks < Long.MAX_VALUE) { ++vbucks; Incredible
- dmix 4y ago
  Hilarious > The maximum value of long is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807
spinaltap 4y ago
This comment from Parent just got #18 locked. lol
james-redwood 4y ago
I would suppose some video aimed at schoolchildren teaching them how to use GitHub has gone viral and they’re taking baby steps. At least that what I think is most likely.

moneywoes 4y ago

Looks like one of those youtube comment scams that target teenagers

ushakov 4y ago

Hacktoberfest flashbacks intensifies https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/ https://blog.domenic.me/hacktoberfest/

iuri1 4y ago

This is truly "Epic": https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18#pullrequestreview-995968989 https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/18#pullrequestrevie...

gruez 4y ago

Looking at the content of the OP and the PRs you linked, my first thought is "Is it Hacktoberfest[1] already?". I mean, seriously, what's up with the such low quality PRs? Is it common to have people spamming repos with trivial changes absent some sort of incentive? [1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktoberfest_pull_request_spam/ https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktobe...

ushakov 4y ago
probably for resume? “Contributed quality improvements to Epic Games Unreal Engine” luckily, GitHub makes it terribly easy to verify how much and what you actually contributed
- wonderbore 4y ago
  The problem here is that they’re not even trying. How can they not know that such PR would never be merged? For this reason I don’t think public contributions are why they send the PRs
  - ushakov 4y ago
    that might be obvious to me and you, but i don’t think the author knew
fellellor 4y ago
Sometimes fixing a typo would be a new coder’s first open source commit. It’s pretty stupid to assume every new PR would be a major new feature or bug fix. It makes OSS unnecessarily hostile to get into. Although this commit in question isn’t even that sadly.
spatulon 4y ago
The main repo I work on for my job is open-source, and yes, it happens fairly regularly that someone opens a nonsensical PR that might randomly perturb some Markdown or YAML file, or attempt to merge commits from some other developer's in-progress branch. I'd say we only get them about once every week or so, but then the repo is not anywhere near as high-profile as the Unreal Engine, nor as likely to be on the radar of children.

cyral 4y ago

Looks like Hacktoberfest PRs

viraptor 4y ago

It's the internet. People can therefore someone will. Increase the likelihood due to the project being game related.

withinrafael 4y ago

It's just very common GitHub spam/abuse. Suspect these are automated accounts trying to look legitimate by doing legitimate-ish things (e.g. cryptocurrency mining via PRs that require one-time approval).

smegma2 4y ago

while(vbucks < Long.MAX_VALUE) { ++vbucks; Incredible

dmix 4y ago
Hilarious > The maximum value of long is 9,223,372,036,854,775,807

spinaltap 4y ago

This comment from Parent just got #18 locked. lol

james-redwood 4y ago

I would suppose some video aimed at schoolchildren teaching them how to use GitHub has gone viral and they’re taking baby steps. At least that what I think is most likely.