GitHub’s slopocalypse (https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/18/godot_maintainers_struggle_with_draining/) – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable.

Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where only 1 in 10 AI-generated PRs meets project standards (https://www.devclass.com/ai-ml/2026/02/19/github-itself-to-blame-for-ai-slop-prs-say-devs/4091420), where curl had to shut down its bug bounty (https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2026/01/26/the-end-of-the-curl-bug-bounty/) because confirmation rates dropped below 5%, and where GitHub’s own response was a kill switch to disable pull requests entirely (https://www.theregister.com/2026/02/03/github_kill_switch_pull_requests_ai) – an organization that gives push access to everyone who joins simply can’t operate safely anymore.

— Jannis Leidel (https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/sunsetting-jazzband), Sunsetting Jazzband

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