# General questions about Pull requests and reviews
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-questions-about-pull-requests-and-reviews/55992
**Category:** Offtopic
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [February 25, 2021, 7:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-questions-about-pull-requests-and-reviews/55992 "2021-02-25T07:38:33Z")
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### Author:  [@dev\_prithvitewatia](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dev_prithvitewatia)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 7:38am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-questions-about-pull-requests-and-reviews/55992/1 "2021-02-25T07:38:33Z")
Hello everyone, I am new to the Julia developer (Github) community though I have been using Julia for quite some time. I have few questions about the review of pull requests.
1. How much time can it take to review a pull request?
2. Who can review my pull request?
3. If my pull request does not get a review after a long time who can I contact?
4. I noticed that some pull requests had failing checks (like buildbot/tester\_linux32 or buildbot/tester\_win64) . So why do these checks fail and why the pull requests were still merged?
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### Author:  [@Albert\_Zevelev](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Albert_Zevelev)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 7:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-questions-about-pull-requests-and-reviews/55992/2 "2021-02-25T07:46:22Z")
Welcome!
1. depends on the package/maintainers/the nature of the PR
-sometimes the maintainers are busy
-sometimes they are waiting for other features before they merge your PR…
2. the package maintainers
3. try to ping the package maintainers w/ @maintainer “friendly reminder”
4. something to do w/ code-coverage, continuous integration … ask someone else
-just bc it doesn’t pass every test now, doesn’t mean it’s a bad PR & shouldn’t be merged
-sometimes it doesn’t pass a test for a reason unrelated to your PR, & when that other reason is resolved your added code will pass more tests
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### Author:  [@dev\_prithvitewatia](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dev_prithvitewatia)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2021, 8:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/general-questions-about-pull-requests-and-reviews/55992/3 "2021-02-25T08:06:12Z")
Thanks