give al power to merge requests on the blog
in #40049 (closed) and, in person, in ireland, it became obvious that one of the blockers @smith is facing is his (in)capacity at just getting through the entire process of publishing stuff on his own. right now, he needs to submit a MR but can't merge it himself, nor can he merge other people's.
this should be fixed: let's give @smith the privileges required to merge MRs in this repository.
at the informal session in Ireland, i mentioned different ways MRs can be used in different projects. basically, i presented three ways:
- ask: you need permission from someone else before changes can be merged, or you can't merge yourself
- review: you need revisions from someone else, but you can merge yourself, maybe after a timeout or checks pass
- tell: you can just merge on your own, but you still use the process to show others how something special is done
We are, i think somewhere between process 1 and 2 in the blog, and we'd be promoting al from status 1 to 2.
Those ideas come from martin fowler