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Open-source game engine Godot is drowning in 'AI slop' code contributions: 'I don't know how long we can keep it up' (www.pcgamer.com)
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[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 12 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

I don't contribute to open source projects (not talented enough at the moment, I can do basic stuff for myself sometimes) but I wonder if you can implement some kind of requirement to prove that your code worked to avoid this issue.

Like, you're submitting a request that fixes X thing or adds Y feature, show us it doing it before we review it in full.

[–] Magnum@infosec.pub 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Tests, what you are asking for are automated tests.

[–] Bongles@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Can that be done on github?

[–] brotato@slrpnk.net 2 points 2 hours ago

Yep, take a look into GitHub actions. Basically you can make it so that a specific set of tests are run every time a PR is opened against your code repo. In the background it just spins up a container and runs any commands you define in a YAML config file.

[–] selfAwareCoder@programming.dev 13 points 7 hours ago

The trouble is just volume and time, even just reading through the description and "proof it works" would take a few minutes, and if you're getting 10s of these a day it can easily eat up time to find the ones worth reviewing. (and these volunteers are working in their free time after a normal work day, so wasting 15 or 30 minutes out of the volunteers one or two hours of work is throwing away a lot of time.

Plus, when volunteering is annoying the volunteers stop showing up which kills projects