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Re:Repl from Repo by davesque on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @05:40PM (#21767563)
Yep, I got the same thing. Haven't merged it and probably won't. Since it appeared to be a bot that created the PR, it seemed like a rather underhanded, spammy way of promoting the repl.it project. It kinda reminds me of the whole tip4commit debacle with the flask project: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8542969
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Re:Repl from Repo by amasad on Wednesday December 11, 2019 @06:43PM (#21767990)
We're certainly not operating any bots if that's what you're implying.
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Re:Repl from Repo by davesque on Thursday December 12, 2019 @01:21AM (#21769691)
The PR's commit message said that the commit was "automatically generated on repl.it". I guess I don't know how to interpret that. Maybe I'm mistaken and someone did manually created the PR with a bad commit message: https://github.com/davesque/go.py/pull/2
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Re:Repl from Repo by davesque on Monday December 16, 2019 @09:32PM (#21809970)
And I did eventually confirm that the commit was, in fact, created manually by an actual person and not a bot.
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