Commit e9b071e5 authored by Adam Niedzielski's avatar Adam Niedzielski

Remove "official merge window" from CONTRIBUTING.md [ci skip]

We should not discourage contributors from submitting merge requests
anytime they want. Our process for reviewing community contributions
no longer depends on the release schedule.
parent 73c54366
......@@ -286,14 +286,6 @@ request is as follows:
1. For tests that use Capybara or PhantomJS, see this [article on how
to write reliable asynchronous tests](https://robots.thoughtbot.com/write-reliable-asynchronous-integration-tests-with-capybara).
The **official merge window** is in the beginning of the month from the 1st to
the 7th day of the month. This is the best time to submit an MR and get
feedback fast. Before this time the GitLab Inc. team is still dealing with work
that is created by the monthly release such as regressions requiring patch
releases. After the 7th it is already getting closer to the release date of the
next version. This means there is less time to fix the issues created by
merging large new features.
Please keep the change in a single MR **as small as possible**. If you want to
contribute a large feature think very hard what the minimum viable change is.
Can you split the functionality? Can you only submit the backend/API code? Can
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