+1 on the cap, thanks for pushing this.

Henry

On 2026/07/09 18:37:41 Jarek Potiuk wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I’ve been testing our triage process recently, quietly closing or reviewing
> PRs based on our current criteria. It seems to be working smoothly—we’ve
> handled about 60 PRs over the last few weeks with minimal disruption! I’m
> excited to share that we are nearly ready to move most of these checks to
> an automated CI process - following Magpie's "Autonomous mode when we prove
> it works with supervision".
> 
> I’ve been thinking about how we can best "give back time to maintainers"
> and have a proposal for a more helpful, intuitive strategy.
> 
> What if we use "maintainer time" as our main guide? Specifically, we could
> use AI to help assess if a PR would take significantly more time to review
> than it would take a maintainer to create it. This should allow us to focus
> our energy where it matters most.
> 
> We can customize this by area. For example, critical core components
> require high-scale testing, while provider updates might be simpler to
> verify regardless of size. By factoring in code complexity and
> area-specific needs, we can calibrate a "bar" that keeps our queue
> manageable and high-quality.
> 
> We have over 230 open test cases in our repo that we can use for
> calibration.
> 
> My goal is to provide clear, kind feedback to contributors when a PR is
> closed based on the assessment of its complexity and the resulting
> "maintainer time for review," suggesting they start with smaller fixes or
> different areas. This isn’t about being restrictive, but about ensuring our
> community’s time is used effectively.
> 
> I’m happy to draft these initial criteria and collaborate with area
> "stewards" to refine them. I’d love to hear your thoughts on making this a
> shared "social contract" to keep our project healthy and sustainable.
> 
> This would demand a level of proactiveness from us—for example it would be
> up to the area "stewards" impacted to tighten the criteria they set and
> describe the area's complexity, which would raise the bar for contributors.
> 
> Best,
> Jarek
> 

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