Strangers on the Internet, or Why PRs Are Conversations, Not Notifications

Here’s something I say a lot that usually gets a reaction: we are not strangers on the internet. The open-source PR model — push your work, notify the team, hope someone picks it up, iterate based on comments — makes total sense when contributors don’t know each other and are working across time zones and organizations with no shared context. It was built for that. It works great for that. It does…