Maybe y'all can give us some good advice here - re...
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m
Maybe y'all can give us some good advice here - recently we have an influx of A LOT of bogus / spam pull requests, most notable on our documentation repo. From my POV the only recourse we have is to close the repo completely to outside contributors. Do you know any other way to prevent this kind of automated AI spam? I'll also ask other maintainers, but maybe one of you has dealt with this before.
g
@magnificent-energy-493 GitHub should now provide some tools to prevent repository interactions if certain conditions are met (for instance, people that never contributed to any other repo, or have had an account for 45 seconds)
m
Yea we have changed it to collaborators only now - this makes it harder to contribute but unfortunately seems to be the only way to not drown in spam. I'll make an official announcement soon outlining the new process - not a big change but I want to make it really obvious what changed and how to contribute in the future. The docs contributions were always among the most significant for us…