Re:How to contribute to an open source project on GitHub
by the8472 on Sunday November 06, 2016 @07:38AM
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> why should it be the maintainer?
I'm saying: Why should it be either human?
> In my experience, [...]
That seems fairly dismissive to me. An expert in a certain area can certainly fix smaller issues with a few lines of code but only have a limited amount of time on their hands. Having to read a lengthy style guide and making sure they adhere to every single rule, especially when those rules are the opposite of their regular habits, is a non-zero hurdle to contributing.
Offloading that work to a machine as far as possible lowers the burden to only those rules that cannot be applied automatically.
In my experience, not even bothering with style is a good indicator of careless "shotgun coding" and such PRs typically have far worse issues. It's also typical that such PRs won't have real issues fixed either.