Hi all,
We need to remove the github workflow approval [1] on dlang-community repositories; workflow approval means: automatic CI is not run on the PR until running CI (workflow) is approved. I have firsthand experience that it is very demotivating, and I'm sure it makes it less likely that contributors work on more beyond a first PR.

I submitted a PR [2] for to dlang-community/setup-dlang. As first-time contributor to that repository, apparently workflow approval is needed. This means that for this rather simple change, there is no immediate feedback of whether it is right or wrong.
When hours later it got approved, it turned out there is a paren ) missing. Mathias kindly fixed it, so on waking up I now only have to click a "commit" but to apply that suggestion, great! Oh... not great... I now again need to wait for workflow approval to learn whether it works or not..... If it's going to be like that, it's just terribly annoying and demotivating.

I see no reason to disallow workflow approval unless there is good evidence that there was spam in the recent past. Was there?

The link [1] has pointers to where this setting can be changed.

Thanks,
Johan

[1] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/approving-workflow-runs-from-public-forks

[2] https://github.com/dlang-community/setup-dlang/pull/71