RFC: Artificial Contributors to Open Source
https://nesbitt.io/2026/05/21/rfc-artificial-contributors-to-open-source.html
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@andrewnez
> This document therefore constrains precisely the set of contributors who did not need constraining.
So, why have it?
Just to demonstrate to third parties that there is an established community norm that the non-compliant ACs are breaking?
@wolf480pl I think you missed the satire tag at the top
@andrewnez
oh, I totally did
@andrewnez “The author thanks the seventeen reviewers who provided detailed feedback within four minutes of the draft being uploaded.” 😅
@andrewnez interesting, with singular individuals sending thousands of PRs, we maintainers can't scale to that. What's worse is that they don't respect contribution guidelines, sign CLAs, or respond to feedback, so they mostly generate noise. Would be nice if there could be a PR queue with certain status checks before they were even allowed to create a PR.
i.e., got 20 PRs in the same hour from a "First-time contributor", same user created over a thousand PRs that day.
