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New comment by moraesc in "We stopped AI bot spam in our GitHub repo using Git's –author flag"

moraesc — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:06:53 +0000

We’re currently working on a feature that lets admins archive PRs. The goal is to give maintainers more control over how they manage contributions in their repositories. Archived PRs would be visible to admins only, so maintainers still have access to contributor history for auditing purposes and to meet any organizational or compliance requirements. Would this be helpful for you?

New comment by moraesc in "GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs"

moraesc — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 15:28:46 +0000

Hey everyone, I'm a PM on the GitHub team building this feature. Really appreciate all the feedback coming in and want you to know that we're reviewing it carefully so we can figure out the best path forward.

Disabling PRs is just the first step in giving maintainers more control over their PR experience. We're exploring several longer-term ideas which you can learn more about in this discussion: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387

Please keep the ideas, questions, or concerns coming in either thread. Would love to keep hearing your thoughts!

New comment by moraesc in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

moraesc — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:39:00 +0000

We just posted a discussion on this topic and some solutions we're exploring: https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/185387

Feel free to drop any feedback or questions in the post.

New comment by moraesc in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

moraesc — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:26:47 +0000

A couple questions here - would more clear guidelines in the CONTRIBUTING.md file help in clarifying project direction and what contributions would be most valuable? Is there a better way for projects to indicate what issues should be prioritized? Do you ever want to run your contribution ideas past a maintainer before opening up a PR and if so do you ever do that? I'm curious if your itch may actually be something they're looking for too but it's not made clear in an effective way.

New comment by moraesc in "We will ban you and ridicule you in public if you waste our time on crap reports"

moraesc — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 02:18:44 +0000

Another GitHub PM here. Thanks for the feedback! We're currently working on adding a way restrict PR creation to collaborations only. We've also heard some feedback around evaluating PRs against contributing guidelines which would allow maintainers to clearly define criteria that PRs must meet, so we're exploring that option as well.