[QGIS-Developer] Rights to merge Pull Request even if CI is red

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 25 June 2026, 9:24 pm Even Rouault via QGIS-Developer, <
qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:

> Hi Julien,
>
> I just tried looking at your PR [0] and I also don't seem to have the
> right to force merge it (only "auto-merge" rights that depend on green CI)
>
> It would be indeed great to have some clarification of who might have
> such rights or not, so we can see if there isn't a bottleneck that must
> be resolved. I'm not sure why we would want such rights to be restricted
> to a subset of people with "regular" merge rights rather than the whole
> group.
>

An alternative would be to remove the merge rules which require tests to
pass -- that'd avoid expanding rights while still allowing the blockage to
be removed.

(Downside is that doing this breaks the ability to "auto merge")

Nyall

>
> Even
>
> Le 25/06/2026 à 12:24, Julien Cabieces via QGIS-Developer a écrit :
> > Hi devs,
> >
> > I cannot merge PR #66483 [0] because there is at least one unrelated
> > test failure every time the CI is launched (I restarted it 7 times),
> although the PR was approved
> > 6 days ago.
> >
> > I have already tackled the issue of the test_gui_fileuploader [1] which
> was
> > failing very often recently because of badssl.com being unstable but
> there
> > are now other issues.
> >
> > A few months ago, I had the rights to merge a PR even if tests were
> > failing, but I don't have them anymore and I cannot contribute anymore
> > on #66483 related issues (I have more fix commits based on this PR).
> >
> > It seems to me that other code committers still have these rights as I
> see
> > PRs with a red CI still being merged.
> >
> > May I have these rights too so I can continue to contribute normally?
> >
> > Shall every core committer have these rights ?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Julien
> >
> > [0] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/66483
> > [1] https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/pull/66543
> >
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