How to get your pull request merged
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Advice: be brief, follow the repo's contributing.md and issue/pull templates, and use checklists so reviewers scan quickly. Find reviewers by inspecting commit and PR history or the maintainers.md file. The most common blocker is a DCO failure — fix the exact commit the check names. Click the GitHub details button on failing Actions, paste logs into the PR, and state clearly whether the change is a typo, test, or API-scope change; 54 repos seen, ~30 are personal.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Pull request merging intro
- 1:32Pull request lifecycle
- 2:34Building maintainer connections
- 6:25Finding maintainers
- 8:30Pull request checks and failures
- 10:17Handling test failures
- 11:44Creating consensus
- 14:58Balancing project needs
- 16:02Accepting closure and iterating
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