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Pull request limits are cutting down the noise(github.blog)
31 points by ingve 5 days ago | 13 comments
frankfrank13 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I think this is a really solid move. This gives OSS contributors a lot of flexibility. You could set the limit to 0, and manually add contributors. You could set it to 1-3 to allow people to get their foot in the door. But the de facto limit today is infinite, which is spammed. Imagine if GMail did this! If I don't whitelist or reply within `n` emails, youre done. I would KILL for that.

SoftTalker 7 minutes ago | parent [-]

I get a lot of emails that I want to get but never reply to. I would not want to have to remember to whitelist all of those.

frankfrank13 3 minutes ago | parent [-]

Yeah fair, then you could set it higher, even 100. Or default it off.

righthand an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Oh stop, the noise is apart of your business model to stay relevant.

MeetingsBrowser 41 minutes ago | parent [-]

how so?

arjie an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I think, amusingly, the right thing to do for most open-source projects is to have each pull request summary and code read by an agent that just reimplements itself from a description of what the code is intended to be. Other people's code is not particularly valuable anymore.

There are some projects where you can provide a PR and they'll just reimplement and I think that's probably adaptive to the world where PR's are cheap and reviews are expensive.

ramraj07 13 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Thats just a coding agent the "peopple" use via you, with extra steps.

csiegert an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

There is also the solution of: No merge requests, just feature wishes and bug reports. All code is written solely by the maintainers (with the help of LLMs).

parliament32 32 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Add a mechanism to donate tokens towards the maintainers' LLMs for a particular ticket and this whole class of problems will be resolved all at once.

SoftTalker 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

And creates a new class of problems. Why not just fork the project and modify it yourself at that point, and cut out the maintainer middleman.

wereHamster 19 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

> Add a mechanism to donate tokens

Or donate money. Crazy idea, eh?

toomuchtodo 29 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Similar to https://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/, code is no longer special.

Vulnerability reports are not special anymore - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48653216 - June 2026

(also like sibling comment about donating tokens or fiat to buy tokens)

qazxcvbnmlp an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Being able to submit an issue, description, test criteria along with a token budget would be pretty cool.