A joke like this is funny once. The screenshot in the OP can be reshared endlessly (whether it’s real or not), and anyone trying to make another iteration of this joke is just spamming the project with useless noise. It makes work for maintainers.
Fortunately it seems like this hasn’t been a problem in this particular repository, unlike the Linux repository which received endless spam before GH gave them the tools to block it. But if this becomes a trend, Arch might need to deal with dozens of joke issues per week, and there’s just nothing funny about that.
Edit: just confirmed that the OP screenshot is fake, which is good. (Issue #4269 doesn’t exist yet and the number itself is two memes.)
To be fair, Linux isn’t developed on GitHub (it’s developed on the Linux Kernel Mailing List and kernel.org) and most of the spammers knew that going into it. The PRs on that repo were mostly just people trolling any bystanders that took it seriously until the internet did what they do best and took the joke too far.
In this specific example they didn’t waste anyone’s time or resources because it was never being used or monitored in the first place.
Edit for more additional context: Linus (who created git in the first place) mentioned not liking centralized git servers so he’s specifically said for multiple years that he never considered actually moving development over to something like GitHub
https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall/issues/3936
No.
A joke like this is funny once. The screenshot in the OP can be reshared endlessly (whether it’s real or not), and anyone trying to make another iteration of this joke is just spamming the project with useless noise. It makes work for maintainers.
Fortunately it seems like this hasn’t been a problem in this particular repository, unlike the Linux repository which received endless spam before GH gave them the tools to block it. But if this becomes a trend, Arch might need to deal with dozens of joke issues per week, and there’s just nothing funny about that.
Edit: just confirmed that the OP screenshot is fake, which is good. (Issue #4269 doesn’t exist yet and the number itself is two memes.)
Woah, I wasn’t prepared for that. I understand now why the FSF close their doors to unvetted outside contributors, if this is what github has become
To be fair, Linux isn’t developed on GitHub (it’s developed on the Linux Kernel Mailing List and kernel.org) and most of the spammers knew that going into it. The PRs on that repo were mostly just people trolling any bystanders that took it seriously until the internet did what they do best and took the joke too far.
In this specific example they didn’t waste anyone’s time or resources because it was never being used or monitored in the first place.
Edit for more additional context: Linus (who created git in the first place) mentioned not liking centralized git servers so he’s specifically said for multiple years that he never considered actually moving development over to something like GitHub