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by masklinn 3026 days ago
> I can see why this would end in suspension - you even mention yourself that when launching the bot (Even on a limited number of repos) you had bugs which messed up README's....

It just opens a PR though, it's not like it actually breaks anything.

The one big issue is that it's spammy.

At the same time, I wonder how you could contact maintainers to see if they're interested, I feel opening an issue would be just as spammy, to say nothing of DM-ing maintainers, or tagging them on issues in your own repository.

You'd want this sort of behaviours to be opt-in, but at the same time you'd be limited by awareness. It's not like this is a big/complex change so chances are the maintainers just don't know about the issue or how to fix it.