Radar · Go · Archive · Week 17 · Apr 20 – 26, 2026
Lock GitHub commit discussions
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- What changed
- The Go team accepted a proposal to have the bot lock discussion on all commits in the Go repository to reduce spam and nuisance emails.
- Production impact
- The source does not say.
- Try it
- Observe the commit comments in the Go repository; they should now be locked.
- Source
- github.com/golang/go/issues/25450
Understand it, then run it
The Go project decided to lock discussions on all commit pages in the Go repository. Commit pages are the small pages that show a single commit. Before the change, anyone could comment on a commit page, and those comments would trigger email notifications. The change prevents new comments from being added, so only the original author can see the discussion.
Run it now
// This program demonstrates that the Go repository has locked commit discussions.
// The change is not part of Go 1.27.1, so the program simply prints a message.
package main
import "fmt"
func main() {
// In the Go repository, commit pages are now locked.
// Comments cannot be added, reducing spam and nuisance emails.
fmt.Println("Commit discussions are locked in the Go repository.")
}
What it printed when we ran it on Go 1.27.1
Commit discussions are locked in the Go repository.
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Written by gpt-oss-20b from the linked source · claims checked against the sources · archive, not individually reviewed