We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag

Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by halapro on Monday May 18, 2026 @02:43PM (#48183747)

Possibly the worst idea I've heard this month.

No one, meat or chip, would just set aside $10 "for the opportunity to contribute"

This is "let them eat cake" level of out of touchness.

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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by rglullis on Monday May 18, 2026 @04:28PM (#48185149)

I have 3 PRs on https://github.com/django-oauth/django-oauth-toolkit/pulls that haven't been merged for OVER AN YEAR due to the maintaners being overloaded and who are expected to work on this for free. The fact that these PRs are not being promptly reviewed have cost me at least 3000€ in potential grant work.

If I was told that I could make a deposit of $10 to get less stressed maintainers and a faster PR review cycle, I wouldn't even blink. I wouldn't even ask for the money back.

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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by nijave on Monday May 18, 2026 @10:09PM (#48188432)

How did it cost you money in grant work? Can't you just fork and use that?

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Re:We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –au... by rglullis on Tuesday May 19, 2026 @03:05AM (#48190196)

Not exactly. NLNet was funding this to get all these different OAuth RFCs nicely integrated with DOT. A lot of my work was already done on separate packages, putting up just another fork without the blessing of the DOT core team would not be of much use to the overall community.

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