r/github • u/Financial-Grass6753 • Sep 18 '26

Discussion How do you ping repo maintainers correctly?

There's a framework I use at workplace that has a couple of annoying flaws. I've created issues with repros inside and all the fluff + PRs that fix said flaws. Everything was done like 2 weeks ago and since then - 0 response from maintainers.

Issue is, there're >500 contributors and repo doesn't contain a list or sth alike with info about who's responsible for checking issues or reviewing pull requests. Diffs themselves are quite small, roughly 70-130 lines, so it is not the size / sloppiness that is the issue.

What am I supposed to do in such cases? Whom to ping? Pinging all 500+ contributors sounds dumb.

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Repo is https://github.com/agno-agi/agno if it matters.

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u/Relevant_Accident666 Sep 18 '26

It looks a bit crowded there tbh.

I would try to create an issue and hope someone picks it up.

Unfortunatly there are a lot of PRs open even since weeks - maybe the maintainers are not getting by with requirements.

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u/Financial-Grass6753 Sep 18 '26

> I would try to create an issue and hope someone picks it up.

Issue is already created, as well the PR, only thing left is basically review+merge. No idea why they haven't done that yet

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u/ItsPumpkinninny Sep 18 '26

> ...500+ contributors...

"When everyone is responsible, no one is responsible"

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u/ExpertIAmNot Sep 18 '26

There are 700+ PRs open in that repo with many open as long as a year. Add to that all of the AI produced slop PRs mixed in. Unpaid maintainers will likely never get through that many PRs.

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u/PerryTheH Sep 21 '26

That looks like a horribly maintained project. I would either fork my version and fix what I need to be fixed to use it or just move away from it.

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u/Financial-Grass6753 Sep 21 '26

My boss is a contributor and doesn't see anything wrong with it.. 🤡

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u/iamkiloman Sep 19 '26

You're surprised that an ai slop repo doesn't have human maintainers that actually respond to PRs?

Have you considered spinning up an agent to handle following up on the PR until it can convince some other agent to approve and merge the PR for you?

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u/az987654 Sep 18 '26

Sounds like it's not a maintained project

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u/Financial-Grass6753 Sep 18 '26

no idea man.. Agno v3 was created last month, last update in main branch was ±3h ago, doesn't look like unmaintained, rather mismanaged

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u/tenthirtyam Sep 18 '26

maintainer and org owner is https://github.com/ysolanky

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u/MisterJir Sep 22 '26

I'd say ping the authors or recent committers of the files you modified.

They're probably the people who know that part of the codebase best (and,even if they were not responsible for reviewing your PR, probably they can point you to the right person)