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GitHub introduces pull request limits, allowing maintainers to cap open PRs from contributors without write access, with a bypass list for trusted contributors.
GitHub is promoting the 2026 Partner Pack, offering exclusive discounts and freebies for open-source maintainers.
This tweet announces a new feature that empowers open-source maintainers to set contribution limits, including a PR cap for external contributors and an allowlist for trusted ones, to reduce low-quality pull requests.
A story detailing how AI bots overwhelmed a GitHub repository with spam comments and untested PRs after a $900 bounty was posted, forcing maintainers to implement workarounds like contributor whitelists and reputation bots, highlighting GitHub's lack of anti-bot mechanisms.
Mitchell Hashimoto announces eight new subsystem maintainers for the open-source Ghostty terminal emulator, outlining the subsystem governance model and goals for scaling the project.