From 267d560b5ae4e73ea99f8211a2e8d0fa1305d9ea Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Daniel Stenberg Date: Tue, 24 May 2022 23:40:50 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs/CONTRIBUTE.md: document the 'needs-votes' concept A pull request sent to the project might get labeled `needs-votes` by a project maintainer. This label means that in addition to meeting all other checks and qualifications this pull request must also receive proven support/thumbs-ups from more community members to be considered for merging. Closes #8910 --- docs/CONTRIBUTE.md | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTE.md b/docs/CONTRIBUTE.md index 16ea8fed1e..8ffd3a3c92 100644 --- a/docs/CONTRIBUTE.md +++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTE.md @@ -169,6 +169,12 @@ actual content changed also allows you to retrigger the tests for that commit. When you adjust your pull requests after review, consider squashing the commits so that we can review the full updated version more easily. +A pull request sent to the project might get labeled `needs-votes` by a +project maintainer. This label means that in addition to meeting all other +checks and qualifications this pull request must also receive more "votes" of +user support. More signs that people want this to happen. It could be in the +form of messages saying so, or thumbs-up reactions on GitHub. + ### Making quality patches Make the patch against as recent source versions as possible.