[scikit-image] How to move pull requests forward (devs, please read)

[Nathaniel Smith]

On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 3:28 PM, Nelle Varoquaux
<nelle.varoquaux at 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).

-n

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