Top ten tips for pain-free pull requests

The text discusses tips for improving the efficiency of pull requests in software development. It suggests measuring the time taken for pull requests using tools like Pull Request Analytics or Sleuth, and focusing on the biggest bottleneck. Tips include assigning one or two people to review a pull request, considering technical and domain expertise when assigning reviewers, automating small tasks such as code formatting and import ordering, writing tech specs for significant changes, keeping pull requests small, taking debates offline, automating deployment, and automating merging. The author emphasizes that pull requests don't have to be a painful process and can be made more efficient with these strategies.