https://peertube.anduin.net/videos/watch/343cc8a4-df33-4379-9fc3-8b239b5be954 Take a moment to ask yourself, "what are Pull Requests for?" Typically PRs are used as a means to communicate that some body of work has been done and is ready to be merged. But is this an optimal use of PRs? If we submit a PR after the work has been completed, have we missed a golden opportunity to collaborate? PRs should be treated like the basic unit of collaboration within GitHub-based projects. By using PRs as communication medium and not simply as a review mechanism, we can create opportunities to communicate better within our projects, enhance the on-boarding of new contributors and help catch potential problems early. In this short talk, I show off the good, the bad and the ugly of PRs and provide a template for best practice which encourages communication and collaboration within your community. Paul Adams is the Open Source Lead for Europe's largest e-commerce platform, Zalando. Paul works in support of a team that helps to grow a community around Zalando's open source technologies and to consult internally on how best to operate in an open manner. Paul is known as a long-time contributor to the KDE community but these days, spends most of his contribution time working on Habitat. http://foss-north.se/2018/speakers-and-talks.html#padams Sun, 10 May 2026 00:08:36 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.anduin.net https://peertube.anduin.net/client/assets/images/icons/icon-1500x1500.png https://peertube.anduin.net/videos/watch/343cc8a4-df33-4379-9fc3-8b239b5be954 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.anduin.net/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.