Re:"Giving up upstream-ing my patches & feel free to pick th...
by pklausler on Saturday January 31, 2026 @05:44PM
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Github suggests reviewers to PR authors based on who's been modifying nearby code recently (ok, I don't know whether that's a general policy, but it happens to me all of the time). And for the past year or so I have been getting tagged to review more and more AI slop from newcomers to the project that we chose to maintain in public. I just immediately nope out of all reviews now if I don't recognize the submitter, because I don't scale enough to be the only actual human involved with understanding the code coming at me. This sucks for the newcomers who actually wrote the patch themselves, but I can't always tell. Put some misspellings in your comments and I'm actually more likely to review it!
I get that the current system isn't working, but I don't think you should just go emailing random committers, that seems likely to just piss people off to no benefit.