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

Fri Jun 26 01:30:39 PDT 2026

Hello,

+1 to

The discussions 
(https://github.com/qgis/QGIS-Enhancement-Proposals/pull/325) were 
certainly lively and intense, but truly interesting. IMHO it's a 
necessary topic. Perhaps if the PSC takes up the issue, it can be 
handled with the necessary semblance of governance legitimacy to find a 
path to consensus without putting you personally at risk, Nyall.

Julien

Le 26/06/2026 à 08:18, Tim Sutton via QGIS-Developer a écrit :
> Hi
>
> Ill add it to the next PSC agenda - we can get flamed there instead :-P
>
> Regards
>
> Tim
>
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2026 at 10:19 PM Nyall Dawson via QGIS-Developer 
> <qgis-developer at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
>
>
>
>     On Thu, 25 Jun 2026 at 21:39, Even Rouault
>     <even.rouault at spatialys.com> wrote:
>     >
>     > Hi Nyall,
>     >
>     > your answer doesn't really answer my question :-) Is the
>     restriction for every committer or a subset?
>     >
>     > Who has rights for changing qgis/qgis github settings? (not
>     necessarily asking for them to be extended, but just so we know).
>     It would be good to communicate when some settings that might
>     affect workflows are adjusted
>
>     We're definitely overdue for an overhaul on our github rights. Our
>     current policy is LAUGHABLY ridiculous (basically "you get merge
>     rights once, you've got them for life... even if you go off to
>     work for ESRI or disappear off the face of the earth" 🤣).
>
>     It's not a discussion I feel like leading though. I tried once,
>     and just got flamed for even bringing it up.
>
>     Nyall
>
>
>
>
>
>     >
>     > I'd say that we should probably give up for now to auto-merge if
>     it blocks approved pull requests from being merged
>     >
>     > Even
>     >
>     > Le 25/06/2026 à 13:30, Nyall Dawson a écrit :
>     >
>     >
>     >
>     > 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
>     <http://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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