For a long time now, Epic has had virtually no presence on GitHub when it comes to monitoring or reviewing community submissions and fixes. It often takes a lot of effort to prepare a PR and it can be disheartening to see it ignored.
We’re currently sitting at an enormous 1,800+ open Pull Requests, many of which are simply going out of date and/or awaiting any kind of comment or feedback. Many of them are simple fixes, in some cases for long-standing engine issues that remain a frustration point for users. Others are dramatic improvements that greatly improve the overall usability of the engine and some of it’s features.
Obviously the complexities of merging code from the general public into the engine cannot be under-estimated, and Epic understandably cannot always provide full transparency on upcoming features and fixes that may conflict with community suggestions. There are also plenty of frankly useless/corrupt PR’s that don’t follow convention and pollute the overall repository.
My complaint however is more about the lack of any real known policy and/or acknowledgement of this as an issue. Ideally of course, Epic would fix much of these issues internally through the natural development process - but this is not always the case, and many systems which Epic seem to have ceased development on are in real need of improvement.
I suspect the community at large would appreciatte some clarity and/or openness from Epic on this subject. If Epic doesn’t have the capacity to deal with PR’s in a meaningful way that’s fair enough, but any information about policy and what Epic may or may not be considering to tackle this enormous backlog would be appreciatted!
Agree, lack of any information is the worst. At this point it would be better if it just wasn’t possible to submit a PR since everyone has no idea if it makes sense to put any effort into research of Unreal codebase and making a PR since it probably will just get stuck and maybe even outdated at some point.
yeah the situation is very discouraging.
i’ve tried submitting a few changes but either they sit there indefinitely or get closed in weird ways. and no-one gives any hint.
“The required Generative AI text is missing from this Pull Request Text. This Pull Request will not be considered by Epic Games unless that is present and checked as conformation.”
it outright closed the pr without any further consideration.
totally upsetting. and quite disrespectful of the time one might put.
i couldn’t find any info on such requirement.
and a comment saying “you should change it” instead of just closing, would have been better.
I just got a PR closed with the exact same message. Very frustrating!
In fact, looking at the list of closed PR, it seems that today A LOT of pr were suddenly closed around the same time with the same message, so perhaps some update on Epics side triggered it? (…by mistake?)
Im sorry your pr got closed too.
Your pr is really good.
The bot message sounds ai generated.
The amount of posts closed sounds due to a tool.
So i bet this is due to a tool error.
Which is somewhat tragic. What will happen with all the good prs?
Github forced pushed very recently a few contentious things for prs.
So i dare to bet its related to that.