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Re:Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports ... by janice1999 on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @09:50AM (#42502239)
It's people, usually students, trying to pad out their GitHub activity and CVs.
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Re:Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports ... by Bluestein on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:03AM (#42502336)
It's an insidious incentive, in an age where an AI is going to look through your CV, and not much care - or be able to tell the difference ...
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Re:Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports ... by esperent on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:08AM (#42502355)
If the AI was told to care, identifying low grade or insignificant contributions is well within it's capabilities.
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Re:Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports ... by vouaobrasil on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @12:03PM (#42503149)
Not in 10 years when the contributions become more sophisticated. Like many other scenarios of this time, it's an arms race.
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Re:Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports ... by esperent on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @02:01PM (#42504067)
If the contributions become sophisticated enough to be actually good, then problem solved, right?
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Re:Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports ... by vouaobrasil on Wednesday December 25, 2024 @05:33AM (#42508088)
No, because the arms race will be using huge amounts of energy and resources so no, not problem solved.
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Re:Open source maintainers are drowning in junk bug reports ... by Bluestein on Tuesday December 24, 2024 @10:27AM (#42502489)
Good point.-
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