That's interesting, it looks like a reasonably effective way to DDOS the FOSS infrastructure that could be used to mask that something else is being slipped in under the radar. I'd be very suspicious of this, especially if there isn't any response, that means that just getting the mailing lists saturated may well be the primary goal.

I think that's not the point that I want to highlight. The problem, however, is some drive-by contributors have unwillingness to accept feedback (including critical reviews). When that behavior become a pattern within contributor's organization/domain, maintainers may take on the err side. For example, Linux kernel maintainers advise to not run checkpatch script on existing sources ([1], [2]). On a occasion, another maintainer had to roll out comment wording fixes after original submitter ignored the maintainer's review ([3]). And the well-known example is when an university was banned from Linux kernel development [4].

[1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230720134501.01f9f1de@gandalf.... [2]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/2023092730-shampoo-anytime-f437@... [3]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/162b5545-7d24-3cf2-9158-3100ef64... [4]: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-nfs/YH%2FfM%2FTsbmcZzwnX@kroah...