• atro_city@fedia.io
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    4 days ago

    Dude, the project has 213 open requests and 19,074 handled. 1% of all requests are thus unhandled and people are complaining losing their minds about one of those 1%.

    Calm the fuck down.

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      3 days ago

      While I have no stance on the meme, I’d like to point out that just looking at raw numbers isn’t a sufficient counter argument for multiple reasons:

      • Many projects use PRs to merge feature branches from maintainers, while outside PRs are left lying around
      • I’ve seen people close their PRs in other projects after sitting around for a long time. How many of those 19,074 were withdrawn?
      • The Mastodon repo used to have the stale bot enabled (might still be), e.g. in this random example. How many of those 19,074 were automatically closed?
      • They also use the renovate bot. How many of those 19,074 were automatically submitted?

      I actually went through and checked how many PRs were automatically submitted, we have:

      • dependabot-preview: 1,107
      • dependabot: 2,279
      • renovate: 1,126
      • github-actions: 270

      There might be more that I’ve missed (e.g. dependabot-preview isn’t listed as an app in the authors filter), but this adds up to 4,782 PRs, just over a quarter of total PRs. That’s a rather large deviation.

      Again, not saying that you’re incorrect, but the numbers you mention could also occur in a project that is as bad as the meme describes.