GitHub PM here working on how we can make this problem feel better for maintainers. Really appreciate how tiring this can be, especially when even low volume is sustained for many months.

Would love your thoughts on some of the things we're thinking about: - Would it help to disable all PRs? All non-contributor PRs? - Would a "close as admin" button help address the issue of not wanting to be rude or discouraging? - What about Copilot doing an initial review and proposing to close anything that doesn't meet contribution guidelines - would that help a "close this" decision feel less personal?

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mnkv 7 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

My ideal is copilot that would evaluate the PR against some basic guidelines that maintainers write down.

And perhaps a way to filter PRs to just contributor PRs would be easy to implement and pretty useful

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ryandrake 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As someone on the other side of the PR, the current situation makes things awkward for me, too. Occasionally, I'll make an actual fix to scratch some particular itch I have with the software, and I'm hesitant to even open a PR, because it's just going to 1. pile yet another PR onto the maintainer, and 2. might get dismissed out of hand because it's mistaken for AI slop or other low-effort spam that these attackers are doing. So, I usually just fork, make the change in my own repo, and leave it at that.

Disabling PRs or limiting PRs to "contributors" would be a signal to me that I should just keep doing that and not contribute back to the main repo.

	▲	emmaviolet 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Totally get this. One thing we'd love to do is help make contribution patterns (not just guidelines) more visible to contributors, to help you get a better read of what's expected. Would that help? If so, where would you expect it to sit in your existing contribution flow?
	▲	boredtofears 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Yeah, I kinda stopped involving myself in other people's OSS projects a while ago for that reason. If I have an itch to scratch, I just use my fork. It usually feels like my itch isn't theirs and I always feel like I'm imposing on the maintainer's vision or at best just taking time away from them. I think maintainers have a lot of pressure to accept things because "open source!".