GitHub is evaluating controls that would let maintainers delete pull requests or disable receiving PRs, alongside AI-based filters, to address a surge of low-quality, AI-generated contributions. Maintainers spend substantial time reviewing submissions that fail to meet project quality standards, often not following guidelines, being frequently abandoned, and being AI-generated. AI-written code is eroding the trust model of code review and making line-by-line verification unsustainable for maintainers responsible for shipped code. The proposed measures aim to reduce operational burden on open-source projects, protect code quality, and provide short-term tools while longer-term solutions are considered.
"GitHub is exploring what already seems like a controversial idea that would allow maintainers of repositories or projects to delete pull requests (PRs) or turn off the ability to receive pull requests as a way to address an influx of low-quality, often AI-generated contributions that many open-source projects are struggling to manage."
"We've been hearing from you that you're dedicating substantial time to reviewing contributions that do not meet project quality standards for a number of reasons - they fail to follow project guidelines, are frequently abandoned shortly after submission, and are often AI-generated,"
"Jiaxiao Zhou, a software engineer on Microsoft's Azure Container Upstream team and maintainer of Containerd's Runwasi project and SpinKube, for one, pointed out that AI-generated code was making it unsustainable for maintainers to review line by line for any code that is shipped."
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