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Automatic Spelling Corrections On Github

An anonymous reader writes "Github projects may be seeing a different kind of contributor than normal: a small bot is now crawling through projects, contributing spelling corrections. It builds on top of the github API and existing documentation style-checking code. Future directions for the project look beyond spelling mistakes and at automated bug fixing on a large scale."

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  1. Re:Yeah, I'm sure... by bipbop · · Score: 4, Interesting

    According to the article, it just submits a pull request. This isn't some bot running on Google's own servers making changes without permission. So if anyone has a problem with it, or if it submits poor changes, they can simply ignore it.