[Doc] Document pull request limit (#46376)

Signed-off-by: simon-mo <simon.mo@hey.com> Co-authored-by: OpenAI Codex <codex@openai.com>

Simon Mo committed Jun 22, 2026 at 07:04 UTC 687173877781670afde318491564bab92ac353aa
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@@ -304,9 +304,15 @@ review process:
304 resources. The reviewer will add `ready` label to the PR when the PR is
305 ready to merge or a full CI run is needed.
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307 -### Escalating Stalled Contributions
307 +### Pull Request Limits and Escalation
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309 -If you have an important contribution that has not yet received maintainer attention, please email us at:
309 +vLLM uses GitHub's [pull request limit](https://github.blog/open-source/maintainers/how-pull-request-limits-are-cutting-down-the-noise/)
310 +for contributors without write access. The current cap is 6 open PRs. If this
311 +blocks well-intentioned critical work, contact a committer to request bypass
312 +list access.
313 +
314 +If you need an expedited review for an important contribution, please email us
315 +at:
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317 <pr-review-request@vllm.ai>
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