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[-] MrMcGasion@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago

Almost certainly not. All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs. Things go back to the way they were during the clunkier, before times when everyone used Subversion, when there were more hoops to jump through to contribute code. Make it so you need an existing contributor to "mentor" first-time contributors (making sure they aren't an AI, are writing competent code that follows project standards, etc.) before giving access to submit dozens of pull requests.

[-] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 weeks ago

We really need a stronger mentorship culture in general

[-] artyom@piefed.social 4 points 2 weeks ago

All you would really need to do to stop this is limit who can submit pull requests to verified devs.

That seems like it would greatly limit the number of contributors, and especially over time, since you'd never have any new ones.

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