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I disagree, the PR is some pointless wordsmithing and then to comment "Verify the pull request and merge asap" is a bit ridiculous. Also, no one is going to care in a day.
> Also, no one is going to care in a day. You should ask Sumit Bhatia about that. ;)
The toothpaste is out of the tube - notifications are going to be scrutinized more in the future, from this point on. I got the email. And about 20+ responses to that email. Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing. EpicGames, as a GitHub org is an outlier, it's basically an SSO for Unreal Engine. I forgot I was even a member of it.
> Every person who replies to that issue triggers another 400k emails. Personally, my email client is crashing.
Your email client only received 20 messages; why is it crashing? The very long To: header?
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I disagree, the PR is some pointless wordsmithing and then to comment "Verify the pull request and merge asap" is a bit ridiculous. Also, no one is going to care in a day.
> Also, no one is going to care in a day. You should ask Sumit Bhatia about that. ;)
Innocent mistake. The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming. Now his real name is going to stay at the center of the internet for a while thanks to being 1st on HN. I would definitely not have coped well with that much internet attention at his age. Some Github replies are more immature than the initial action and I hope he does not…
> The kid is barely 18. The emotion and stress resulting from mistakenly sending a notification to 400,000 is likely overwhelming. Huh? I don't think it's "the kid"'s fault that some random organization is using GitHub orgs as a proxy to get people to sign their Terms of Service. If the org or group is on GitHub, it's only a matter of time before someone is going to mention it. The emotion and stress should be on the…
Slightly OT, but it's always been weird to me how Epic requires you to add yourself to their organization on GitHub before you can access the Unreal source. I don't see how it serves any real authentication purpose; anyone can get added to it, and anyway, it's not like the code is secret when 400k people are on there Am I missing something?
I got curious and just found PR #20, which made me think this scheme gives Epic a way to hitch onto GitHub's management of export controls. I.e., if you're in a country to which US companies aren't allowed to disclose software, GitHub likely has this figured out, and by Epic requiring a GitHub account, they don't have to figure out all the rules and regulations themselves (again).
Seems like an innocent enough mistake. Remind me of when I once helped organize a volunteer hackathon with people from different companies. We created a Slack organization just for the occasion. At the end of the event, I was supposed to ask all attendees to delete all the data we had given them before they went home. The message I posted to #general (the channel everyone in a Slack organization is required to be in)…
I can live with the random message that has nothing to do with me, but having to delete an endless stream of messages because so many people felt the need to reply already knowing that it would go out to everyone is really annoying
Someone else has intentionally submitted another. https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/26
I think the top commenter on this thread (Rob) may not realize his comment is the one that is triggering the first wave of notifications, based on his choice of sound effect.
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> ... his intentions were probably good ... Are we looking at the same pull request? https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/24/commits/4e531d5c... That's ... a super crap PR, hovering near trollish behavior territory.
It's apparently a young person who submitted it. I think most of us who were that age with github available submitted some crap PRs. I remember I submitted some low quality PRs that just changed comment formatting/typos on some large repos. Not trolling, just trying to contribute in some way and get my name in the project without having enough skills for a real PR.
I'd call those minor (valid, of course) changes, not low quality changes like what led to this post.
https://github.com/EpicGames/Signup/pull/26#issue-1260958786