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-**IMPORTANT:** Due to work on the docs.flutter.dev infrastructure, **all open pull requests will be closed August 17.**
+**IMPORTANT:** Due to work on the docs.flutter.dev infrastructure, this repo is **not accepting pull requests**.
 
-If your PR needs to be merged by August 17, please say that in your PR. 
+Instead of creating a PR, please file an issue (https://github.com/flutter/website/issues/new/choose) about the needed change.
 
-Otherwise, please [file an issue](https://github.com/flutter/website/issues/new/choose) about the needed change, and (if you submit a PR) be prepared to recreate the PR August 31 or later.
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-_Description of what this PR is changing or adding, and why:_
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-_Issues fixed by this PR (if any):_
-
-## Presubmit checklist
-- [ ] This PR doesn’t contain automatically generated corrections (Grammarly or similar).
-- [ ] This PR follows the [Google Developer Documentation Style Guidelines](https://developers.google.com/style) — for example, it doesn’t use _i.e._ or _e.g._, and it avoids _I_ and _we_ (first person).
-- [ ] This PR uses [semantic line breaks](https://github.com/dart-lang/site-shared/blob/main/doc/writing-for-dart-and-flutter-websites.md#semantic-line-breaks) of 80 characters or fewer.
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+We expect to start accepting PRs again the week of August 31.
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