• Johan (26/26) Feb 01 Hi all,
• Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole (5/5) Feb 02 I've changed it at the organization level to be first time contributors

Johan <j j.nl> writes:

Hi all,
   We need to remove the github workflow approval [1] on 
dlang-community repositories; workflow approval means: automatic 
CI is not run on the PR until running CI (workflow) is approved. 
I have firsthand experience that it is very demotivating, and I'm 
sure it makes it less likely that contributors work on more 
beyond a first PR.

I submitted a PR [2] for to dlang-community/setup-dlang. As 
first-time contributor to that repository, apparently workflow 
approval is needed. This means that for this rather simple 
change, there is no immediate feedback of whether it is right or 
wrong.
When hours later it got approved, it turned out there is a paren 
`)` missing. Mathias kindly fixed it, so on waking up I now only 
have to click a "commit" but to apply that suggestion, great!  
Oh... not great... I now again need to wait for workflow approval 
to learn whether it works or not..... If it's going to be like 
that, it's just terribly annoying and demotivating.

I see no reason to disallow workflow approval unless there is 
good evidence that there was spam in the recent past. Was there?

The link [1] has pointers to where this setting can be changed.

Thanks,
  Johan


[1] 
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/approving-workflow-runs-from-public-forks

[2] https://github.com/dlang-community/setup-dlang/pull/71

"Richard (Rikki) Andrew Cattermole" <richard cattermole.co.nz> writes:

I've changed it at the organization level to be first time contributors 
who are new to GitHub.

I've also approved the workflow for the PR.

If in the future you need organization level admin done, feel free to 
ping me about such issues ( rikkimax).