Our pr tests aren't good enough for what you propose

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> On May 19, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Dave Goodell (dgoodell) <dgood...@cisco.com> 
> wrote:
> 
>> On May 19, 2015, at 5:08 AM, Jeff Squyres (jsquyres) <jsquy...@cisco.com> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On May 18, 2015, at 5:03 PM, Mark Santcroos <mark.santcr...@rutgers.edu> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> What I didn't see in the doc, will you continue to work with two repo's or 
>>> will that change too?
>>> (I found that confusing as a newcomer)
>> 
>> Unfortunately, yes, we will keep 2 repos.  Github doesn't let us have 
>> per-branch permissions -- having multiple repos is the only way to have 
>> strict control over who can push to release branches.  Sad panda.
>> 
>> If Github ever does enact per-branch permissions, we will happily squash 
>> back down to a single repo.
> 
> The other way to solve this issue would be to stop treating the master as a 
> general dumping ground for potentially unstable code where anyone can just 
> push any time they want.  If we switched to using PRs for (essentially) all 
> code that goes into master as well, then we wouldn't need two different sets 
> of permissions.
> 
> Back in the SVN days it was nice to have a trunk where people could freely 
> check in work because there was no other good system for keeping track of 
> your own work or sharing it with others.  But with Git we no longer have 
> those problems.  I can easily organize multiple concurrent streams of private 
> development, avoid losing work, and share work with others, all without 
> committing to some centralized master branch.
> 
> -Dave
> 
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