On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 12:35:02AM -0500, Terry Reedy wrote:
On 1/31/2022 7:31 PM, Nikita Sobolev wrote:
Hi, my name is Nikita and I think that I am the person behind these spammy PRs. Link: https://github.com/python/cpython/pulls/sobolevn
I also encouraged multiple easily reviewable PRs from you. Please continue.
Preening a large codebase is not only a good thing, but encourages familiarity: not only with the code, but with the opaque and worst-documentend parts of the software development processes: the maintenance lifecycle. The fact people are assuming bad faith and spilling ink about those getting involved with that extremely-underserved part when contributors are sorely needed is counter-productive. It would be better if more people contributed small changes and thus became low-friction contributors who don't require a lot of mentoring.
Terry Jan Reedy
Martin