Pull requests, huh? I have like half a dozen bad jokes half formed in my brain…
But seriously, is this a thing on github these days? Spam through PRs (and presumably also Issues)? Can it be mitigated?
But I’m pretty sure Github is not the main place to develop the Linux kernel. I believe they have their own git servers and GH is only a mirror, so maybe PRs from GH are ignored altogether? IDK
Linux kernel does not accept contributions from github so this repo was always like that
The only new thing here is this
Why is it on github then? What’s the point?
It’s basically a read only mirror with links to the right place. That makes it easier to find or clone for many people
Why do they accept PRs then? Pretty sure you can turn that off.
Afaik you very much can not turn it off
I’m pretty sure the mirror was setup before that was an option. No reason to turn it off now that it’s a source of entertainment.
Is it an option? Can’t find it. (But GitHub is confusing and I’m old, so maybe there’s something?)
Anything can be a dating app, if you are desperate enough.
On that note, I am looking for smart, charming and funny girl, who is willing to date me… /s
I also am looking for what this guy is looking for and I can cook, clean, and sing Wheel in the Sky. I also use Arch btw.
Woof c:
dam they’re gonna turn off PRs
I am not a kernel dev but I am pretty sure all issues/patches are sent/reviewed over the mail list. I think the gh issues are ignored and should probably be turned off.
That resolves my confusion. I was wandering what is going on, if its a meme or what. But that’s actually pretty funny. Its a way to gatekeep kernel dev for people who are willing to put in effort, which shows it’s important to them making commits more serious I guess? Like it hinders people to do the AI spam shit that curl reported, on the other hand it also hinders getting into Linux dev a bit by making it more complicated than just a little pull request
One of the programmers where I worked left the project to do other things. So our project lead opened a bug ticket in our public tracker to find a replacement. Sure enough, we got some candidates that way.
So is this just AI spam or is it just some practical joke or protest?
As I said in my other comment, contrib. over github is already not accepted. And yes these are humans not bots. Pull requests were already filled with bizarre stuff for years before this started
It’s just some silly fun.
Does this count as a git pull?
WTF!
… did c/unix_surrealism predict this or did it somehow fall though the cracks of reality translations?
Heck this looks like a great community. Thanks for the ref!
The way our Creator Linus intended.
