-   Once the internal tests pass, we go ahead and merge the code internally as
    well as externally on GitHub.

In a graphical form, the entire lifetime of a PR looks like

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        Kronecker Product.
    *   Allow LinearOperator to broadcast.
    *   SavedModelBuilder will now deduplicate asset names that point to files
        with the same basename and the same contents. Note that this may result
        in new asset files included in SavedModels in cases where assets with
        the same name but different contents were previously overwriting each
        other.