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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by gruez on Saturday June 04, 2022 @10:55PM (#31627564)
Looking at the content of the OP and the PRs you linked, my first thought is "Is it Hacktoberfest[1] already?". I mean, seriously, what's up with the such low quality PRs? Is it common to have people spamming repos with trivial changes absent some sort of incentive?

[1] https://www.theregister.com/2020/10/01/digitalocean_hacktobe...

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by fellellor on Sunday June 05, 2022 @02:23AM (#31628515)
Sometimes fixing a typo would be a new coder’s first open source commit. It’s pretty stupid to assume every new PR would be a major new feature or bug fix. It makes OSS unnecessarily hostile to get into.

Although this commit in question isn’t even that sadly.

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by ushakov on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:03PM (#31627615)
probably for resume?

“Contributed quality improvements to Epic Games Unreal Engine”

luckily, GitHub makes it terribly easy to verify how much and what you actually contributed

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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by wonderbore on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:38PM (#31627787)
The problem here is that they’re not even trying. How can they not know that such PR would never be merged? For this reason I don’t think public contributions are why they send the PRs
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by ushakov on Saturday June 04, 2022 @11:49PM (#31627832)
that might be obvious to me and you, but i don’t think the author knew
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Re:GitHub user sends notification to 400k users by spatulon on Sunday June 05, 2022 @07:02AM (#31629845)
The main repo I work on for my job is open-source, and yes, it happens fairly regularly that someone opens a nonsensical PR that might randomly perturb some Markdown or YAML file, or attempt to merge commits from some other developer's in-progress branch.

I'd say we only get them about once every week or so, but then the repo is not anywhere near as high-profile as the Unreal Engine, nor as likely to be on the radar of children.

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