This is most likely a bot "warming up" by contributing to some well-known
(high-reputation) repository. Merging those will allow them to build a
reputation for things like "sell stars for github repos".
- https://the-guild.dev/blog/judging-open-source-by-github-stars
- https://dagster.io/blog/fake
Looks like classwork for sure. I think intent on pull request needs to be
present to explain the value and maybe contributor guide should state that if
it does not. The change appears to be from sonar rules. It's clearly some form
of classwork when user has no GitHub history. Many classes now
Lately I've noticed a few random PRs from first time contributors that
use some automated refactoring tool on our code for no obvious reason.
Here's an example:
https://github.com/apache/maven-assembly-plugin/pull/131
These refactorings don't seem helpful and don't IMO improve the code in any way
