For reference, I've seen polars has a similar policy, though theirs is only for first time contributors: > You may not have more than one open PR at a time. https://docs.pola.rs/development/contributing/#first-time-contributions
Cheers, Jeffrey On Tue, 11 Aug 2026 at 18:48, Nic Crane <[email protected]> wrote: > After a brief reprieve, we've had an uptick in AI contributions, some of > which are causing issues like people not responding to feedback and leaving > open PRs which get stale but appear that someone is working on them, > preventing other people from taking them up. > > There is currently a PR [1] open on the ASF infrastructure repo to enabled > a GitHub setting [2] whereby contributors without write access can only > have a limited number of PRs open at the same time. > > I think it'd be worth pushing for that to get merged, and in the meantime > agreeing on our own policy in terms of the number of concurrent PRs. > > We need to strike a balance between preventing excess low-value PRs but > allowing non-committers to continue to be productive. I did a quick > analysis, and non-committers have a mean of 1.43 and median of 1 concurrent > open PRs, with the mean being skewed by a long tail with some folks with > lots of open PRs, so a fairly low number like 3 could work quite well. > > What are peoples thoughts? > > Nic > > > [1] https://github.com/apache/infrastructure-asfyaml/pull/111 > [2] https://github.com/community/maintainers/discussions/840 >
