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doc: document open pull request limit - #65250
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legendecas
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Can the number be put in CONTRIBUTING.md only, so that we don't need updating 3 places if the number changes?
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What's the process for users currently with more than 10 PRs, should their overflow be closed, or grandfathered in?
Renegade334
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Aug 12, 2026
GH will not close them, the user is just prevented from opening more until the total drops to <10. |
aduh95
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Aug 13, 2026
IIUC GitHub would let them open more than 30, but won't let them mark as Ready for Reviews more than 30 at a time: |
aduh95
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Aug 13, 2026
I suggest we revert the 30-PR limit and close this PR in favor of nodejs/admin#1087. The absolute number of non-draft PRs is not saying much about the quality of a contribution, the rate the PRs are open does. The fact that GH UI indicates the limit so prominently can give users the impression that having up to 30 open PRs is OK, so IMO it's only making things worse. I'd rather have them open 50+ PRs at once so we can block them. |
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I suggest we revert the 30-PR limit and close this PR in favor of nodejs/admin#1087.
Approving this since I'd personally lean more towards the approach here approach since making the change, which as we've seen today appears in the github messaging, will be kinder to new contributors than a message which only exists in the moderation document which users are less likely to have seen until they trip over it.
Unfortunately, when a limit is set, it appears on https://github.com/nodejs/node/pulls whether or not a user has any pull requests open or not. It doesn't just appear as a message when a user gets close to the limit or exceeds it.  That has been interpreted as an invitation to open lots of PRs up to that limit. That may look different if the limit is 5 - 10, but the cosmetics of the message also need to be considered. Edit: I've suggested to GH program management that they consider making the appearance of that message optional / configurable. If I get any response, I'll relay it here. Comparing it to disk quotas, you'd only expect to get warned if you were running out of space. |
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I want this to be lower. 3 or 5. Especially for first-time contributors. But I will not block if others believe 10 is sufficient.
Signed-off-by: Matteo Collina <hello@matteocollina.com>
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Aug 13, 2026
Let's land this, then lower it down further to 5. |
| Contributors who are not Collaborators may have no more than 10 pull requests | ||
| open at a time. |
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| Contributors who are not Collaborators may have no more than 10 pull requests | |
| open at a time. | |
| Contributors who are not Collaborators may have no more than 10 pull requests | |
| open at a time. This is a limit. Not a goal. It is not an invitation to open as many pull requests as possible up to the limit. |
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"Too many pull requests from one submitter can quickly overload available capacity to review. Limiting the number helps submitters and reviewers prioritize."
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Aug 14, 2026
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Signed-off-by: Matteo Collina <hello@matteocollina.com> PR-URL: #65250 Reviewed-By: Aviv Keller <me@aviv.sh> Reviewed-By: René <contact.9a5d6388@renegade334.me.uk> Reviewed-By: Rafael Gonzaga <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com> Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Daeyeon Jeong <daeyeon.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Stewart X Addison <sxa@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Mike McCready <66998419+MikeMcC399@users.noreply.github.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <legendecas@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <bethanyngriggs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matteo Collina <hello@matteocollina.com> PR-URL: #65250 Reviewed-By: Aviv Keller <me@aviv.sh> Reviewed-By: René <contact.9a5d6388@renegade334.me.uk> Reviewed-By: Rafael Gonzaga <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com> Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Daeyeon Jeong <daeyeon.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Stewart X Addison <sxa@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Mike McCready <66998419+MikeMcC399@users.noreply.github.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <legendecas@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <bethanyngriggs@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Matteo Collina <hello@matteocollina.com> PR-URL: #65250 Reviewed-By: Aviv Keller <me@aviv.sh> Reviewed-By: René <contact.9a5d6388@renegade334.me.uk> Reviewed-By: Rafael Gonzaga <rafael.nunu@hotmail.com> Reviewed-By: Yagiz Nizipli <yagiz@nizipli.com> Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com> Reviewed-By: Daeyeon Jeong <daeyeon.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Stewart X Addison <sxa@redhat.com> Reviewed-By: Mike McCready <66998419+MikeMcC399@users.noreply.github.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Chengzhong Wu <legendecas@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Trivikram Kamat <trivikr.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Beth Griggs <bethanyngriggs@gmail.com>
I previously set the maximum number of open pull requests for non-Collaborators to 30 to prevent excessive AI contributions and maintainer burnout. I want to reduce that limit to 10, and this change documents the new limit in the contribution guides.