TLDR Tech / Dev
My PR has been waiting a year, or the exponential curve behind open source backlogs
Open-source projects like Jellyfin face massive backlogs of unmerged PRs due to bottlenecks, such as a single maintainer nearing 100% utilization, which results in exponentially growing wait times and a "batch size death spiral" where large PRs clog the system. Combat this problem by optimizing the existing maintainer's time. Some solutions include capping PR size, gating quality, limiting work in progress, setting review cadences, and building a reviewer tier.
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