# How to advance my pull request? **URL:** \ **Category:** Steps to contribute to RLlib\ **Created:** [July 22, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-advance-my-pull-request/22879 "2025-07-22T05:42:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MCW\_Lad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/mcw_lad/32/8009_2.png) [@MCW\_Lad](https://discuss.ray.io/u/MCW_Lad)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 5:42am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-advance-my-pull-request/22879/1 "2025-07-22T05:42:36Z")
Hello, all. I recently uploaded a pull request that fixes some issues that cause the example code for a shared encoder not to function, allowing it to be run successfully and train a pair of agents: [Shared encoder working by MatthewCWeston · Pull Request #54571 · ray-project/ray](https://github.com/ray-project/ray/pull/54571) I’ve linted my code using the official pipeline for doing so, gone through the automatically-generated suggestions from Github’s LLM, passed the tests, and my PR has been tagged _(community contribution, docs, rllib, usability)_, but I haven’t heard anything further for around a week. Is there something that’s needed on my end to help facilitate the process? I’m happy to make improvements, if need be. I understand completely if the process just takes a bit of time, I just want to make sure I’m approaching this the right way. ---
**Author:** ![christina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/christina/32/7542_2.png) [@christina](https://discuss.ray.io/u/christina)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2025, 5:30pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-advance-my-pull-request/22879/2 "2025-07-22T17:30:39Z")
Hi, Thanks so much for taking the time to submit this PR and for fixing the shared encoder example - attempts like this that improve our documentation and examples are really valuable to the community. ❤ I apologize for the delay. ☹ I’m going to flag this with someone from our team to get it reviewed. In the meantime, there’s nothing additional needed on your end until the reviewer leaves comments. The process can sometimes take a bit longer than we’d like, but your PR definitely hasn’t been forgotten. Please reach out to me on Slack anytime (Ray Slack as Christina), here on Discourse (DM me) and I would be happy to try help speed things along! Or just chat! ---
**Author:** ![MCW\_Lad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/mcw_lad/32/8009_2.png) [@MCW\_Lad](https://discuss.ray.io/u/MCW_Lad)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-advance-my-pull-request/22879/3 "2025-07-31T21:53:32Z")
Hey again, thanks for your reply. I just got a message from Github that the issue has been automatically marked as stale. I posted a comment to keep it active, but is there anything more I should do? ---
**Author:** ![christina](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/christina/32/7542_2.png) [@christina](https://discuss.ray.io/u/christina)\ **Post date:** [July 31, 2025, 10:57pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-advance-my-pull-request/22879/4 "2025-07-31T22:57:54Z")
@MCW_Lad, Hi, it should not be marked stale again after you add a comment. I’ll try to bump it up with our RLlib team, thank you for bringing it to my attention! ---
**Author:** ![MCW\_Lad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/mcw_lad/32/8009_2.png) [@MCW\_Lad](https://discuss.ray.io/u/MCW_Lad)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 12:21am UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-advance-my-pull-request/22879/5 "2025-08-01T00:21:01Z")
Thanks! I just saw some activity on it. ---
**Author:** ![arturn](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/arturn/32/2096_2.png) [@arturn](https://discuss.ray.io/u/arturn)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2025, 7:50pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-advance-my-pull-request/22879/6 "2025-08-01T19:50:13Z")
Hi @MCW_Lad , Sorry - the RLlib team is quite stretched. The PR is great and I gave it a review. ---
**Author:** ![MCW\_Lad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/discuss.ray.io/mcw_lad/32/8009_2.png) [@MCW\_Lad](https://discuss.ray.io/u/MCW_Lad)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://discuss.ray.io/t/how-to-advance-my-pull-request/22879/7 "2025-08-04T17:40:36Z")
Thanks! I’ve updated my code according to the feedback you gave.