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How pull request limits are cutting down the noise
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More people are contributing to open source than ever, most of them trying to help.
Key facts
- In January 2023, developers merged about 25 million pull requests a month across GitHub
- Knowing that someone hasn’t opened 5–10 pull requests that are slop makes it much easier to want to look
- In February, they wrote that open source was hitting its own Eternal September
- Pull requests opened by Copilot or another AI agent will counts toward your limit
Summary
Reviewing one still takes a human about as long as it ever did. A pull request limit sets the maximum number of pull requests a user without write access can have open at once in your repository. Pull requests opened by Copilot or another AI agent will counts toward your limit. GitHub already has interaction limits, but those are temporary cooldowns. A cap also changes how contributors behave. It’s helped them want to review pull requests again.