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authorRich Trott <rtrott@gmail.com>2018-03-03 22:02:55 -0800
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doc: remove tentativeness in pull-requests.md
There are some uses of "in general" that are unnecessary. (We don't need to be tentative about the fact that tests should pass, for example.) PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/19123 Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Anatoli Papirovski <apapirovski@mac.com> Reviewed-By: Tobias Nießen <tniessen@tnie.de> Reviewed-By: Gibson Fahnestock <gibfahn@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
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@@ -401,10 +401,10 @@ seem unfamiliar, refer to this
All Pull Requests require "sign off" in order to land. Whenever a contributor
reviews a Pull Request they may find specific details that they would like to
see changed or fixed. These may be as simple as fixing a typo, or may involve
-substantive changes to the code you have written. In general, such requests
-are intended to be helpful, but at times may come across as abrupt or unhelpful,
-especially requests to change things that do not include concrete suggestions
-on *how* to change them.
+substantive changes to the code you have written. While such requests are
+intended to be helpful, they may come across as abrupt or unhelpful, especially
+requests to change things that do not include concrete suggestions on *how* to
+change them.
Try not to be discouraged. If you feel that a particular review is unfair,
say so, or contact one of the other contributors in the project and seek their
@@ -610,8 +610,8 @@ however, will stay intact on the Pull Request page.
For the size of "one logical change",
[0b5191f](https://github.com/nodejs/node/commit/0b5191f15d0f311c804d542b67e2e922d98834f8)
can be a good example. It touches the implementation, the documentation,
-and the tests, but is still one logical change. In general, the tests should
-always pass when each individual commit lands on the master branch.
+and the tests, but is still one logical change. All tests should always pass
+when each individual commit lands on the master branch.
### Getting Approvals for Your Pull Request