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Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors

by
Hunki Enterprises B.V., Holger Brunn
- 23/01/2026 20:54:11 
Hi all,

on the OCA days, we discussed that the current situation with having way too 
much input for way too few reviewers is untenable. This has not improved 
since, quite the opposite. It's really hard to find the gems in the noise.

Back then, I called for better automation for this, so here my proposal:

Have a github action that counts lines of PRs somebody opened in a repo, vs 
the lines of PRs the person reviewed in that repo. Everyone must review at 
least twice as much as they submit.

If after asking for more reviews, no reviews come, close the user's PRs 
automatically (in the repo, not all OCA) after some time.

Also add a manual mechanism for banning users who try to cheat with bullshit 
reviews or otherwise undesirable behavior. PRs by banned users are closed 
automatically.

I implemented both in
https://github.com/hbrunn/social/blob/18.0/.github/workflows/reciprocity.yml
resp
https://github.com/hbrunn/social/blob/18.0/.github/workflows/ban.yml

You can test this by creating PRs against my fork after cloning my version of 
the 18.0 branch.
Banning works by adding a handle to a file .banned.txt in the repo's root.

Before proposing this to oca-addons-repo-template, I'd like to hear some input 
from you.

Best regards,
Holger


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