Tiny Wins for Maintainers: PR Limits, the "AI Slop" Problem, and Rating Repos with Copilot

For all of the tiny wins and stuff, could you talk about just some that people have probably seen or new things that have been coming out recently that you're excited about?

Yes.

So I guess for context, when we started last year, the goal was to mostly focus on paper cuts.

So we were trying to stick to like a two to three week time frame.

figure out what would be the highest impact paper cuts that we could ship within that timeframe.

And some of these things were things that people had been asking for for years.

So while they might've seemed small, they were very impactful in different ways.

But I think the way we started to work shifted a lot at the start of this year.

when the number one pain point became the increase in low quality contributions hitting repos, which we've been calling the AI slot problem.

So since then, we've kind of had all hands on deck to try to help solve this problem and figure out more ways and more tools to help support open source maintainers dealing with contributions hitting their repos at scale.

So most recently we shipped PR limits, which basically allows maintainers to set a maximum number of PRs that users without right access can have open at once.

That's handy.

Yeah.

So finding more ways to make it more granular.

So for example, one thing that we're working on is adding a setting to allow draft PRs to count towards that limit so that you don't all of a sudden become spam.

Yes.

I want that.

Have you had that happen to you? Just

on a couple of my projects where I'm just like, could you get rid of that? It's just

there where I don't want

this random PR sitting in my history, but it is.

Yeah.

Okay.

Well, hopefully we'll have that out soon.

I'll use