Is your PR less than 100 line changes? Do I know who you are?

If the answers to both questions are “no” your PR is (usually) going straight in the reject bin without so much as a glance. This rubric has served me well since before LLMs were a thing and it continues to be a useful rule of thumb. If I had any projects with sufficient volume to warrant it, I’d automate the rejections with an allowlist of known contributors. Want to get known? Start small. Want to make big changes anyway? You’ve already forked the code, congratulations you’re a maintainer now, more power to you.