When a non-committer (I think?) opens a PR, one of the committers must notice it and click Approve & Run so the contributor can find out if something broke in our automated tests/precommit/linting.
This seems like a waste, and a friction in the worst possible place for our community: new contributor onboarding experience. I think we have it to prevent e.g. a crypto mining bot of a PR sneaking in and taking tons of resources to mine dogecoin or so? But 1) that doesn't seem to be happening so far, 2) when I hit "Approve & Run" I never look closely to see if there is in fact a hidden crypto miner in there, and 3) can't we just put some reasonable timeout on the GitHub actions to block such abuse? Is this some sort of requirement by GitHub, or did we choose to turn on this silly step? Mike McCandless http://blog.mikemccandless.com
