OSS Contributors Urged to Submit Reviewer Question Banks Alongside Code Patches

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A proposed open-source contribution practice recommends that contributors include a structured 'Reviewer Question Bank' file alongside pull requests, rather than submitting bare code diffs. The artifact, a short Markdown file named REVIEWER_QUESTIONS.md, pairs each anticipated maintainer question with required evidence and a cited answer, keeping unanswered items flagged as TODO. The approach addresses a common review bottleneck where maintainers must spend scarce time reconstructing reproduction steps, public API changes, and error paths that contributors could have documented upfront. Unlike generic PR templates, the question bank is generated specifically from the branch's own paths and exit codes, making it patch-specific rather than boilerplate. Proponents argue this shifts a pull request from an unexplained diff into a reviewable evidence packet, reducing stalled reviews and improving the contributor-maintainer feedback loop.

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