On Wed, Nov 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM Nathan Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Oh, for clarity, the change request we're talking about is in GitHub: when
> you review a pull request, you can request changes. For example, if a pull
> request calls some API and forgets to check the return value, someone who
> reviews the PR can request a change to check the return value. That request
> for a change means that the PR should not be merged until it is fixed, or,
> if the PR author explains why it is correct the way it is and the reviewer
> agrees. For example, maybe the API is called during shutdown and the return
> value doesn't matter.

Yes, just as Alan mentioned this is kind of github PR handling process
to say "I do not agree yet to merge it in this form and changes needs
to be made before merge to upstream is done".

What Matteo talks about is situation where some committers ignore this
Change Request and merge to upstream anyway because github allows to
somehow overcome this rule / mechanism. I think this should be
implemented on the per-repo rules basis just as we have other
mechanisms implemented :-)

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