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by jjoonathan
1506 days ago
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You're assuming that the PR is valid, but a maintainer can't make that assumption. They have to do the thankless work to figure out the context and handle the fallout if they get it wrong. Let's look at who wins: * Small benefit to bot creator
* Tiny benefit to project
* Modest cost to maintainer
Waves of low-effort resume-padding commits are already a thing. Not a big problem, but bots clearly have the potential to multiply the small problem into a big problem.I'm still open to the idea that bots could be a net win, because most projects really do have heaps of small simple mistakes lying around. I'm sympathetic to the maintainers though. They always seem to get the short end of the stick. |
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