+1

On Thu, 14 May, 2026, 5:30 am James Dailey, <[email protected]> wrote:

> +1
>
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> On Wed, May 13, 2026 at 3:03 PM Adam Monsen <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I was working on improving our branch protections
>> <https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FINERACT-2605> today and was
>> forced to change our workflow a bit.
>>
>> *Before*: commits directly to develop were allowed. If a PR is used, all
>> conversations in that PR must be resolved.
>>
>> *After*: commits directly to develop are not allowed. All changes must
>> come from approved PRs, and all conversations in PRs must be resolved.
>>
>> What do people think of this change? Not an official vote but: +1? -1?
>> Must all changes come from approved PRs? Note another side effect: *Someone
>> else* must review and approve your PR. For example, PR #5846
>> <https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/5846>.
>>
>> Personally I'm +1 on .asf.yaml as it is now
>> <https://github.com/apache/fineract/blob/e3d698bc1f2d297ad124e10c2fbf2596f91bb00b/.asf.yaml>,
>> enforcing the "After" rule as stated above.
>>
>> I think it's a reasonable set of rules to enforce since AFAIK we already
>> follow this in practice, but there may be edge cases I'm not thinking of.
>> When I browsed git commit history the only exceptions I found were my own
>> commits directly to develop.
>>
>> If we decide we don't want the new rules, we'll need to remove these
>> lines from .asf.yaml:
>>
>>        required_conversation_resolution: true
>>        required_pull_request_reviews:
>>          required_approving_review_count: 1
>>
>> I wanted only the first line to keep things the way they are, but using
>> rulesets I can't have it without the other two lines. And we must now
>> use rulesets. So I thought through the new way (requiring at least one
>> approved PR), and I think that'll probably be a Good Thing. So I'm still +1.
>>
>> (Not to complicate things too much but I believe we can omit the
>> conversation resolution requirement and keep the approved reviews
>> requirement. So yet another option. I prefer to keep the conversation
>> resolution requirement.)
>>
>> Feedback welcome. If nobody has any strong feelings about this I'll just
>> use lazy consensus and leave it as-is.
>>
>> --
>> Adam Monsen
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