As someone who is watching the python/cpython repository, I'm very used to see lots of traffic. But lately there have been a surge of spammy PRs which are about the same, generally very trivial subject but individually fixing each occurrence one by one:
- Add coverage to X (tens of them, as separate PRs)
- Make `test_xxx` executable with direct invocation (tens of them, as separate PRs)

- Lint source with flake8, fix linting errors (stylistic changes)

And lots of non-committer PR reviews that only approve. Am I the only one who feels like this is only done to 'grind' commits (get a higher number of commits into the repository, and boast about it)?

In the past there were one or two people who would submit typo fixes, but most of them weren't making it continuously. The situation right now feels much worse than those.