On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Guido van Rossum guido@python.org wrote:
Occasionally I receive a sequence of emails from GitHub where a PR is requesting my review by some user, the-knights-who-say-ni responds with a CLA request, and then Bedevere closes it, without comment. Latest example: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5693
This seems to be some kind of user error -- the GitHub description is typically something like "<user> wants to merge 398 commits into master from 3.5". But this happens so frequently I would like to prevent this user error from happening in the first place.
Does anyone understand what these users are doing that causes such PRs to be created?
This is because GitHub allows anyone logged into the site to click the "New pull request" button on the branches page (https://github.com/python/cpython/branches). I reported this to GitHub several months ago and the last word was that they were "discussing it internally"; I'll bug them about it again.
-- Zach