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> there's this common back-and-forth round-trip between the contributor and maintainer, which is just delaying things.

Delaying what?

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Merging code

There would be no merge if there isn't a PR in the first place.

This isn’t about the PR. This is about the back-and-forth.

If the maintainer authors every PR they don’t have to waste time talking with other people about their PR.




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