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@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ Contributions to Milvus fall into the following categories.
 
 If you have improvements to Milvus, send us your pull requests! For those just getting started, see [GitHub workflow](#github-workflow).
 
-The Milvus team members will review your pull requests, and once it is accepted, it will be given a `ready to merge` label. This means we are working on submitting your pull request to the internal repository. After the change has been submitted internally, your pull request will be merged automatically on GitHub.
+The Milvus team members will review your pull requests, and once it is accepted, the status of the projects to which it is associated will be changed to **Reviewer approved**. This means we are working on submitting your pull request to the internal repository. After the change has been submitted internally, your pull request will be merged automatically on GitHub.
 
 ### GitHub workflow