Kindly Closing Pull Requests:
Getting your first pull request from an outside contributor on GitHub is an exciting experience. Someone cared enough about the problem you were solving to check it out themselves, change something, and contribute that change back to your project. When your project has a relatively small number of high-quality, desirable incoming pull requests it is easy to happily merge them.
Where things can become more difficult is when your project becomes more notable and the quality, desirability, or number of pull requests you receive causes difficulties. Now the positive feeling you had about the time people spent can be reversed; you don't want to reject someone's work when they have already spent the time to get it included.
Let's discuss some common types of pull requests that can be closed and how to do so in a way that encourages positive behavior in your community (rather than discouraging participation).
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