>> I see that these "cleanup" patches are not bringing much value, bust I also don't see why fixing spelling mistakes or log messages is considered as harmful, KPI boosting or not.
My best guess: It creates a small amount of work for a maintainer to review and merge. This is worthwhile if a new contributor is learning their way around, and getting new contributors is very important to an OSS project. To have a large company submitting a bunch of these is a distraction for maintainers who have better things to do than support someone trying to inflate their metrics.
My best guess: It creates a small amount of work for a maintainer to review and merge. This is worthwhile if a new contributor is learning their way around, and getting new contributors is very important to an OSS project. To have a large company submitting a bunch of these is a distraction for maintainers who have better things to do than support someone trying to inflate their metrics.