Unless in the last few weeks of a milestone when we need to reduce churn and stabilize, we aim to be always accepting pull requests.
Either the [on call](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/wiki/Kubernetes-on-call-rotation) manually or the [submit queue](https://github.com/contrib/tree/master/submit-queue) automatically will manage merging PRs.
Either the [on call](https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/wiki/Kubernetes-on-call-rotation) manually or the [submit queue](https://github.com/kubernetes/contrib/tree/master/submit-queue) automatically will manage merging PRs.
There are several requirements for the submit queue to work:
* Author must have signed CLA ("cla: yes" label added to PR)