Under the hoodTier: how much it should matter to you
2Useful: my rating, 1 to 5
3Signal: worth watching, 1 to 5
GitHub IntegrationArea: what it touches
ImprovementsKind: in v2.1.248,
ImprovementsSection of the release
What
The GitHub pull request status poller now tracks how many times in a row the API answered "not modified", resetting the count whenever something actually changes. This is the groundwork for backing off polling on quiet PRs.
Evidence
pollerNotModifiedStreak
Strings lifted out of the shipped bundle, so the claim above can be checked against them.
