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Further to this, the quality problem is affecting the entire industry, not just FOSS. Anyone working on a large enough team has already seen some contributors p
by tobyjsullivan 8mo ago
Further to this, the quality problem is affecting the entire industry, not just FOSS. Anyone working on a large enough team has already seen some contributors pushing slop.
And while banning AI outright is certainly an option at a private company, it also feels like throwing out the baby with the bath water. So we’re all searching for a solution together, I think.
There was a time (decades ago) when projects didn’t need to use pull requests. As the pool of contributors grew, new tools were discovered and applied and made FOSS (and private dev) a better experience overall. This feels like a similar situation.
- charcircuit 8mo agoProjects back then did not use pull requests because that is a concept created by GitHub.
- tobyjsullivan 8mo agoApologies, I forgot to use the more general term. FOSS projects didn’t always have a standard process for Fagan inspections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagan_inspection https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fagan_inspection
- em-bee 7mo agothe original pull request was an email to the upstream developer to run "git pull your-repo your-branch". the concept is at least as old as git itself, possibly even older. github just created a webinterface for it.