I think we should still allow open contribution to OSS.
Maybe, a "Contributor Requests".
It would be a gate for new contributors. For maintainers, they would see what they have contributed to and see their new PR. It would show "open contributor requests"
Once approved, The PR will then appear under PRs.
And obviously this is opt in.
tlhunter 2 hours ago [-]
About time. It's absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't existed for the past 10 years.
wavemode 1 hours ago [-]
yeah, I thought they were going to provide some sort of rationale as to why they've never implemented this. instead this post just basically goes "yeah, you guys have been asking for this feature for 10 years, and... it's a good idea! let's do it."
drob518 2 hours ago [-]
Exactly. Yes, please.
gscho 2 hours ago [-]
Just make the repo private?
Carrok 1 hours ago [-]
"I am fine with my code being public, but I am not fine being badgered by people about changes I have no interest in." is a perfectly valid stance.
ethin 2 hours ago [-]
That doesn't work. What if your repo is a mirror of another repo?
csmantle 20 minutes ago [-]
It's a founded move. GitHub is code hosting platform, so there are both grounds and needs for read-only repos without PRs.
aaronbrethorst 11 minutes ago [-]
I've started aggressively blocking low-quality contributions that have that AI-generated je ne sais quoi.
Advise from low-quality bootcamp-like training programs that encourage open-source contribution, providing low-quality examples of such contribution, in order to improve one's resume and career chances.
zekenie 57 minutes ago [-]
They need to talk about how the pr itself should change. The text diff just is not the right thing to center. We should be using ai to chunk changes into reviewable bytes and to align on semantics and contracts.
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Maybe, a "Contributor Requests".
It would be a gate for new contributors. For maintainers, they would see what they have contributed to and see their new PR. It would show "open contributor requests"
Once approved, The PR will then appear under PRs.
And obviously this is opt in.