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CPython pull requests wait long for reviews

CPython pull requests wait for review with no response, so contributors must repeatedly ask for reviews and are unsure when to ping maintainers.

Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.

8 public reports · first reported 2 October 2026 · last reported 3 October 2026

Idea report · $19 · No contacts · All sales final

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What's going wrong

Contributors to the CPython project report that their pull requests sit without any review for weeks, and they post separate review requests on the forum to get attention.

AI-assisted: written with the help of AI from the reports. The idea report has the full summary.

In the idea report

  • The full summary.
  • The products the 8 reports are about, and how many came each month.
  • Related problems.

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