Post #1886329
2026-05-02 03:44 UTC
Click through the pages of closed pull requests for Flask. It's not until page 9 (end of 2024) that you see a majority are merged instead of closed. Only 38 of the last 200 PRs are merged. Similar story for Werkzeug, Jinja, and Click. LLMs and genAI are such an obvious negative on maintainer time. https://github.com/pallets/flask/pulls?page=9&q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed
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@demiurg@fosstodon.org 2026-05-02 04:16
@davidism Do you think excluding generated code in the contribution guidelines would help? Would you reject a generated pr directly or would you consider it if the change is reasonable and the code has good quality?
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@zoul@boskovice.social 2026-05-02 04:34
@davidism Did you consider using something like https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch to screen the PRs?
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@webframp@hachyderm.io 2026-05-02 05:05
@davidism @glyph yea. What we had is over. https://stack72.dev/the-community-pull-request-is-dead/
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@stanfromireland@mastodon.social 2026-05-02 09:18
@davidism I was curious what the breakdown was for CPython, so I did a 'lil counting. Total (non-backport) PRs opened in the last 30 days: 568 Of those PRs: Merged: 259 Closed: 95 Still open: 214