Please provide a way for repository owners to opt out

[jacobian]

Not all repository owners want to recieve automated pull requests.

In some cases, the PRs aren't even actionable -- consider the case of a vendored dependancy that contains a typo. The maintainer can't fix it without forking upstream, which could cause a merge conflict if they wanted to upgrade. This is pretty common in Python web stuff that needs to include upstream JavaScript code, for example.

For some maintainers, the time-to-value ratio isn't there for these kinds of PRs. Typo PRs of this nature increases noise, makes it harder to focus on the issues they'd like to work on. For others, having a bunch of open PRs increases stress. For some, the very idea of automated PRs is frustrating; see, for example, this thread by Dustin Ingram: https://twitter.com/di_codes/status/1542489151630712832

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You've built a tool that can be useful, but also can be used in a way that feels mildly abusive. I think the compassionate thing to do would be to build a mechanism for repository owners to opt out. I can think of a few ways to do this:

• some sort of central blocklist here in this repo that maintainers can add repos (or entire projects/usernames) to
• a metadata file in a repo, e.g. a robots.txt for repositories
• some sort of well-known tag (no-automated-prs-please) owners could add to their repos

I'm sure there are other solutions. Please consider implementing one.

[timgates42]

Yes there is a black list currently

meticulous/app/meticulous/_sources.py

Lines 35 to 36 in 7d41785

	# Organisations or Users who have requested to be excluded from typo fixes
	BLACKLISTED_ORGUSERS = {"angvp"}

but I do like your other suggestions too.