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What makes a great contribution to a codebase?

Guidelines and principles learned in going from two to seven ICs.

Growing a team by 3.5x meant that certain behaviors, concepts or principles that were easy enough to agree upon with just two folks now needed to scale up to many independent people. Pull requests currently have a template to help you answer some of these questions while also providing a consistent format for reviewers to learn more about the change you're proposing. Talk with your team about sequencing a series of changes that ship to production rather than bundling a ton of code behind a single feature flag.

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