pnpm v12 is the target for new feature development. The TypeScript pnpm v11 implementation is maintenance-only.
Update the repository guidance so shared bugs are fixed and tested in both versions, while v12-only features and fixes do not create v11 parity work. Align the contributor, review, changeset, release, README, and PR checklist instructions with the same policy.
Strengthen the duplicate-PR guidance to point at the issue's
automatically linked PRs, add an AI-assisted contributions section
(agents are welcome, but contributors own the output — check linked
PRs, understand the change, run the tests, keep the diff focused,
disclose agent authorship with the standard footer), and document that
human review starts only after CodeRabbit approves and CI is green.
CodeRabbit is the single required AI approval — Qodo ignores
Dependabot/Renovate PRs, so a two-reviewer gate could never be
satisfied for dependency updates; the PR template is aligned
accordingly.
Multiple contributors keep submitting parallel PRs for the same issue
(e.g. pnpm/pnpm#13114 was superseded by pnpm/pnpm#13124 for issue
pnpm/pnpm#13108). GitHub already cross-links every PR that references
an issue on the issue's timeline, so add a checklist item prompting
authors to check those links before submitting.
Pure directory move plus path fixups: the Rust port ships as pnpm v12,
so the source tree now lives at pnpm/ (alongside pnpm11/, the frozen
TypeScript line). No identifiers change in this pass — crate names
(pacquet-*), the pacquet bin, PACQUET_VERSION, the @pacquet/* npm
package names v11's runPacquet spawns, the .pacquet virtual-store dir,
the benchmark harness's clone dir, and the pacquet-*.yml workflow
filenames (npm trusted publishing is bound to them) all stay for a
follow-up.
Also removes the root /pnpm/ .gitignore entry (build detritus in the
pre-pnpm11 package location): pnpm/ is real source now and must not be
ignored. Developers with a stale generated pnpm/ dir should delete it
before checking out this change.
Zoltan Kochan