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Re: Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors

On Mon, Jan 26, 2026 at 11:42 PM Graeme Gellatly <notifications@odoo-community.org> wrote:
This might sound like a crazy way to handle, but how about solving by setting a PR limit per repo. So a PSC can set a policy of say, at any given time, only 10 open PR's are allowed, and no PR can be older than say 4 months. Once limit is hit, no new PR can be accepted until limits resolved. 

This is basically kanban? I'd be willing to participate in a trial of this on any of the repositories that I follow.
by Adam Heinz - 02:00 - 27 Jan 2026

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  • Reciprocity in PR opening vs reviews; banning contributors 
    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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    by Holger Brunn - 08:56 - 23 Jan 2026

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