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authorDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2022-05-24 23:40:50 +0200
committerDaniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>2022-06-02 08:21:24 +0200
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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
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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.