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Yep. It makes a lot of sense for open source where gate keeping makes sense (to reduce feature bloat, back doors and an inflated API surface that needs to be maintained almost indefinitely).

Most corporate code bases are written by a smallish team operating under tight time constraints so most contributions are actually improving on the current state of the code base. Then PRs delay the integration, and lead to all kinds of follow up activities in keeping PR associated problems at bay. For example the hours wasted by my team in using stacked PRs to separate Boy Scout rule changes to the code from the feature is just abnormal.



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