Re:Building bots to mend badges, or how to get your GitHub a...
by masklinn on Thursday March 08, 2018 @09:57AM
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> I can see why this would end in suspension - you even mention yourself that when launching the bot (Even on a limited number of repos) you had bugs which messed up README's....
It just opens a PR though, it's not like it actually breaks anything.
The one big issue is that it's spammy.
At the same time, I wonder how you could contact maintainers to see if they're interested, I feel opening an issue would be just as spammy, to say nothing of DM-ing maintainers, or tagging them on issues in your own repository.
You'd want this sort of behaviours to be opt-in, but at the same time you'd be limited by awareness. It's not like this is a big/complex change so chances are the maintainers just don't know about the issue or how to fix it.
It just opens a PR though, it's not like it actually breaks anything.
The one big issue is that it's spammy.
At the same time, I wonder how you could contact maintainers to see if they're interested, I feel opening an issue would be just as spammy, to say nothing of DM-ing maintainers, or tagging them on issues in your own repository.
You'd want this sort of behaviours to be opt-in, but at the same time you'd be limited by awareness. It's not like this is a big/complex change so chances are the maintainers just don't know about the issue or how to fix it.