Dianne Skoll via linux wrote on 2025-10-03 09:31:
On Fri, 3 Oct 2025 09:24:14 -0700 Ron via linux<linux@linux-
ottawa.org> wrote:
That's great, but "commercial" is a key point. A lot of software
we use is not commercial which means developers are not obligated
to do that due to working for free.
Oh... OK. Your original email had the word "$software" which I
assumed meant commecial software, but maybe was a typo?
Ha ha, nah, that's just short-hand for scalar variable, like $x.
Sorry for the confusion.
(And now it's getting worse with people submitting vague, AI-
generated "bugs" that aren't even bugs, but I digress.)
The way around that is simply not to use GitHub. That's where most
of the AI-generated PRs and bug reports happen.
That's where most of *everything*, like... collaboration, happens.
Ignore GitHub, and one is mostly invisible (unless a large project of
course). But for solo projects or small ones looking for wide
visibility, that's the place to go, for better and for worse the network
effect is A Thing.
At most, have a mirror of your primary repo on GitHub and configure
it so PRs and bug reports cannot be created on GitHub. I self-host
using Forgejo and also have mirrors of my repos on Codeberg.org and
salsa.debian.org.
That might work if PRs can be accepted via email, but there's always the
friction of signing up for Yet Another Account.
(Now I'm wondering, how to submit a PR via email? A rabbit hole I don't
have time for right now...)
Okay, had to check, it's `git-send-email`
(https://git-scm.com/docs/git-send-email).
Thanks Diane!
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