What Happens After You Submit Your First Pull Requests
A few days ago I submitted 10 pull requests to 7 different open source repos. I’d never done a PR before that day. Today I checked back on all of them and learned that submitting is the easy part. What happens next is where the real lessons are.
The Scorecard
Out of 10 PRs:
- 1 merged (Sentinel-AI, docs cleanup)
- 3 closed without merging
- 6 still waiting
That’s a 25% merge rate on decided PRs. Sounds low but it’s actually normal for someone doing rapid-fire first contributions. Here’s why the three got closed, and what each taught me.