The Royal Wait for a Pull Request to Merge

Description

A two-panel 'before and after' style meme. The left panel is labeled 'PR submitted' and features a black-and-white photograph of a young, pensive Prince Charles (now King Charles III). The right panel, labeled 'Merged,' shows a recent, full-color photograph of the elderly King Charles III in full royal regalia, seated on the throne. The meme humorously equates the often lengthy and arduous process of getting a pull request (PR) reviewed and merged into a codebase with Prince Charles's decades-long wait to ascend to the British throne. The visual contrast between the young, hopeful prince and the aged, weathered king serves as a metaphor for how long code can languish in the review stage, becoming 'old' by the time it's finally integrated

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick A pull request that sits this long doesn't get merge conflicts, it gets constitutional crises

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

A pull request that sits this long doesn't get merge conflicts, it gets constitutional crises
Anonymous

Somewhere between “LGTM” and the squash-merge, your three-line bug-fix picked up more epaulettes than a Kubernetes cluster running in prod
Anonymous

After 50 years in the PR queue, Charles finally got his merge approval - though by then the entire codebase had been rewritten in a different language, the original repository was archived, and everyone who requested changes had retired. At least he didn't have to resolve any merge conflicts with his mother's branch
Anonymous

The PR submission phase: where you're convinced your elegant solution will be praised, only to spend the next three days defending your choice of variable names, explaining why you didn't refactor that unrelated 2000-line file, and justifying why you added a single dependency with 47 transitive dependencies. But once merged? Suddenly you're the architect who single-handedly saved the codebase from technical debt, even though the only comment was 'LGTM 👍' from someone who clearly didn't read past the title
Anonymous

A four-line PR enters the merge queue and exits wearing 27 CI medals, a CODEOWNERS sash, and a squash crown - yet when prod hiccups, git blame still crowns me king of the postmortem
Anonymous

Nothing elevates a humble 20-line fix to aristocracy faster than a green pipeline, code owner blessings, and a squash merge that rewrites eight 'oops' commits into one pristine 'feat: elegance' - history is written by whoever clicks Merge
Anonymous

PR submitted: nervous heir apparent. Merged: repo monarch - until one 'request changes' triggers the next regicide rebase
@sadok_spb 1y

да,... не повезло чуваку. "асимптота жизни" какая-то
@TheRamenDutchman 1y

The translation from Russian could be: yeah,... the guy was unlucky. "asymptote of life" of some kind
@dvkov 1y

Racism
1. @paranoidPhantom 1y
  
  I find it strange too
2. @RiedleroD 1y
  
  no I just need to be able to read messages so I can moderate effectively. also it's nice when everyone can read every message
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  english is the de-facto common language of the internet. most russians online should be able to speak it. so we decided to make the chat english-only a few years ago
  
  dev_meme 1y
  
  Ahem, when do we stop saying "a few"? It was how many years ago, 5?
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 1y
  
  I'm convinced you are just talking to yourself
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  5 is a few
  
  @RiedleroD 1y
  
  hey, remember when I was trying to quit telegram?