priya-sundaram-devandpre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
00d9ebb4c0
* Move DIRECTORY.md to its own section in pr_file_map.py DIRECTORY.md is auto-generated and touched by nearly every open PR, so it dominated the 'possible merge conflicts' list and distracted maintainers. Pull it out into a dedicated section at the very bottom of the report that separates PRs whose only overlap is DIRECTORY.md (safe to 'accept both' in the GitHub UI) from PRs that also collide on real source files. Also render the Script path relative to the git root instead of an absolute machine-specific path. * [pre-commit.ci] auto fixes from pre-commit.com hooks for more information, see https://pre-commit.ci --------- Co-authored-by: pre-commit-ci[bot] <66853113+pre-commit-ci[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
Dealing with the onslaught of Hacktoberfest
Each year, October brings a swarm of new contributors participating in Hacktoberfest. This event has its pros and cons, but it presents a monumental workload for the few active maintainers of this repo. The maintainer workload is further impacted by a new version of CPython being released in the first week of each October.
To help make our algorithms more valuable to visitors, our CONTRIBUTING.md file outlines several strict requirements, such as tests, type hints, descriptive names, functions, and/or classes. Maintainers reviewing pull requests should try to encourage improvements to meet these goals, but when the workload becomes overwhelming (esp. in October), pull requests that do not meet these goals should be closed.
Below are a few gh scripts that should close pull requests that do not match the definition of an acceptable algorithm as defined in CONTRIBUTING.md. I tend to run these scripts in the following order.
- close_pull_requests_with_require_descriptive_names.sh
- close_pull_requests_with_require_tests.sh
- close_pull_requests_with_require_type_hints.sh
- close_pull_requests_with_failing_tests.sh
- close_pull_requests_with_awaiting_changes.sh
- find_git_conflicts.sh
Run on 14 Oct 2025: 107 of 541 (19.77%) pull requests closed
| Script run | Open pull requests | Pull requests closed |
|---|---|---|
| None | 541 | 0 |
| require_descriptive_names | 515 | 26 |
| require_tests | 498 | 17 |
| require_type_hints | 496 | 2 |
| failing_tests | 438 | 58 |
| awaiting_changes | 434 | 4 |
| git_conflicts | [ broken ] | 0 |