Improve PR handling

[hholst80]

This repo has 369 open pull requests. most of them are waiting for review.

This is why open source review process has such a terrible reputation.

How can we fix it?

[zetashift]

Just last week there has been a release that includes lots of contributions: https://github.com/helix-editor/helix/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#2507-2025-07-15

You can't generalize a whole process off a single stat, especially like open PRs. If you still think it needs change, merge the ones you like in a fork, I'd say and give feedback in the PRs if you run up against anything.

And I'm saying this as somebody who'd love to see certain PRs merged, but I don't think it needs """fixing""", I appreciate whatever a sustainable process for the maintainers is.

Reviewing/merging PRs for a statistic and a made-up reputation is exactly a thing that makes sustainability harder to achieve.

[hholst80]

I value your right to having a different opinion but I don't see how anyone would be against a improvement? I didn't even provide a solution and yet you object? Why?

[hholst80]

@the-mikedavis seems to be the only person that both accepts and reviews any recent PR. I think many more would be happy to contribute with reviews. In that way at least Mike would be able to defer at least that part of the integration effort.

Seeing your PR sit for months on months without anyone from the maintainers to bother doing a review of the code and continually rebasing is not sustainable. They will not attempt to contribute to this project and we all are worse off.