[throwaway290]

> Only if you establish your lab in a tent on the street and put a sign that says "for public display" on it.

I don't get how your flawed analogy has evolved now. Care to expound?

Edit: I see your edit, thanks. Yes, if we leave garage doors open we still don't welcome these bots, sorry.

[Mo3]

But that is not up to you to decide in the case of OSS.

Public websites get crawled and indexed hundreds of times per day and sometimes linked to even with criticism. Would you not say this is the same concept?

[throwaway290]

Outside of my system vs. inside of my system. PRs count as the latter in my view. It's filing a task, for me to do, so it should not even seem like it is coming from a non-individual.