Until recently I've always done pull requests in the master branch,
but after talking to various people I've learned that this isn't best
practice. So I thought I'd share what I've learned so far.
Feel free to learn me some more.
When you submit pull requests, the owners don't owe you a merge, and you shouldn't start hassling them to act on it. The flip side of that: if you're the owner (or maintainer) of a github repo, and someone submits a pull request, please at least communicate, even if you don't plan on acting on it anytime soon.
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