Pull request lifecycle

Important

This is part of a Draft of the Python Contributor’s Guide. Text in square brackets are notes about content to fill in. Currently, the devguide and this new Contributor’s Guide co-exist in the repo. We are using Sphinx include directives to demonstrate the re-organization. The final Contributor’s Guide will replace the devguide with content in only one place. We welcome help with this!

The [Plan for the Contributor’s Guide] page has more details about the current state of this draft and how you can help. See more info about the Contributor Guide in the discussion forum: Refactoring the DevGuide.

[Details of pull requests for documentation contributions. The existing Lifecycle of a pull request page is long and includes many details. Some only apply to code contributions, but many are common to all contributions. Should we keep a common page, with documentation tweaks here, or should this page have only the documentation details even if they are duplicated elsewhere?]

[See Pull request lifecycle for the code half of this conundrum.]