PRs that are AI generated without a human in the loop

Validation of acceptable argument values

Changes to the public API, typically requiring deprecation.

Consistency of the matplotlib API, including naming, behavior, defaults, …

Changes to default behavior

Run wheel building tests on a PR

Run cygwin tests on a PR

CI configuration and testing

Users in need of help.

Pull requests that update a dependency file

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Last-resort; prefer specific mechanisms if possible: draft PR, request changes, specific labels

files in lib/ and doc/api

building the docs

files in doc/devel

files in galleries/examples

files in galleries/plot_types