gh triage spam #We get a lot of spam in the CPython project. A lot of it isn’t even slop, but mostly worthless “nothing” issues and PRs that barely fill in the issue template, or add a line of nonsense to some arbitrary file. They’re often from new accounts with usernames like: za9066559-wq quanghuynh10111-png riffocristobal579-cmd sajjad5giot satyamchoudhary1430-boop SilaMey standaell1234-maker eedamhmd2005-ui ksdmyanmar-lighter experments-studios madurangarathanayaka5-art A new issue from a username following the pattern nameNNNN-short_suffix is a dead giveaway. I think they’re trying to farm “realistic” accounts: open a PR, open an issue, comment on something, make a fake review. It’s easy but tedious to: close the PR/issue as not planned retitle to “spam” apply the “invalid” label remove other labels I use the GitHub CLI gh a lot (for example, gh co NNN to check out a PR locally), and it’s straightforward to write your own Python-based extensions, so I wrote gh triage. Install: $…
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