Wonder if this will become common practice from now on ?

  > Pull requests are disabled. Coding agents make it too easy to send a large, 
  > low-context change that costs maintainers more time than it saves. 
  > Thoughtful contributions are welcome; please understand the code, 
  > keep the patch focused, and respect the review time you are asking for.
  > 
  > Send a git format-patch attachment to ...

time to bring back the dev email distribution list