On Fri, Apr 14, 2017, at 00:14, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Nelle Varoquaux
> <nelle.varoquaux@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > For style-changes (such as pep8/flake8) elements, I find that very often new
> > contributors don't know they can configure their text editors to display the
> > pep8/pyflakes violations. Very often, it is a question of mentoring them
> > through the process of configuring their text editors.
> > Recently, I've been either creating pull requests on people's branch or
> > pushing to the contributor's branch just before merging.
>
> I wonder if it would be worthwhile to have a bot that automatically
> pushes formatting fixes to submitted PRs (using autopep8 or yapf).

That'd be great; do you know if such a thing exists?