If you can’t explain why your AI-generated contribution belongs in the repo, don’t put it in a maintainer’s queue 🙅🏻♀️
Before asking for review, you should be able to answer:
1. What project need does it address? 2. Where does it fit, and does it duplicate existing work? 3. What evidence shows it works, and will you own it through review?
If you can’t answer those, you haven’t saved anyone time. You’ve passed the buck to the maintainer.
Outrider has made us better contributors by doing more of this work before upstream review by * reading contribution rules, accepted PRs, and open issues * finding needs and integration points * drafting the code, tests, and context.
We still decide what deserves to go upstream, verify the claims, coordinate with maintainers and contributors, and stay involved through review.
On huggingface/peft, only 4 of 20 Outrider runs opened draft PRs. Two contributions have now merged: