[python-committers] Issues with hundreds of commits being opened and closed -- what's going on?

[Guido van Rossum]

Ah. Makes sense. UI design is hard... Thanks!

On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+pydev at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 6:21 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at 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
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