GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by aofeisheng » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 12:30 AM UTC

GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs
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Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by tlhunter » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 1:52 AM UTC

About time. It's absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't existed for the past 10 years.

Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by drob518 » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:15 AM UTC

tlhunter wrote: post #2

About time. It's absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't existed for the past 10 years.

Exactly. Yes, please.

Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by gscho » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:21 AM UTC

tlhunter wrote: post #2

About time. It's absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't existed for the past 10 years.

Just make the repo private?

Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by ethin » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:24 AM UTC

gscho wrote: post #4

tlhunter wrote: post #2

About time. It's absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't existed for the past 10 years.

Just make the repo private?

That doesn't work. What if your repo is a mirror of another repo?

Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by wavemode » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 2:50 AM UTC

tlhunter wrote: post #2

About time. It's absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't existed for the past 10 years.

yeah, I thought they were going to provide some sort of rationale as to why they've never implemented this. instead this post just basically goes "yeah, you guys have been asking for this feature for 10 years, and... it's a good idea! let's do it."

Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by Carrok » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 3:09 AM UTC

gscho wrote: post #4

tlhunter wrote: post #2

About time. It's absolutely ridiculous that this hasn't existed for the past 10 years.

Just make the repo private?

"I am fine with my code being public, but I am not fine being badgered by people about changes I have no interest in." is a perfectly valid stance.

Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by zekenie » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 3:20 AM UTC

They need to talk about how the pr itself should change. The text diff just is not the right thing to center. We should be using ai to chunk changes into reviewable bytes and to align on semantics and contracts.

Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by jscyc » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 3:42 AM UTC

I can imagine a few maintainers might appreciate that ability (https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20is%3A...).

Re: GitHub discusses giving maintainers control to disable PRs

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Post by beart » Tue, Feb 03, 2026, 3:48 AM UTC

jscyc wrote: post #9

I can imagine a few maintainers might appreciate that ability ( https://github.com/expressjs/express/pulls?q=is%3Apr%20is%3A... ).

Wow, what is the context for all of these spam PRs?