I often write just my database models, or just my API/schema first. It's typically syntactically correct, but entirely non-functional. I'll sometimes open a PR

I often write just my database models, or just my API/schema first. It's typically syntactically correct, but entirely non-functional. I'll sometimes open a PR for this with "WIP" in the title, "DO NOT MERGE" in the body, or without the "For review" label that we use. These PRs serve to facilitate discussion, start knowledge sharing, and update other developers on my progress more clearly than a branch they might have to check more carefully. However I would definitely not want to merge one. I love CI/CD, we do a lot of it and try to have small changes and feature flagging as much as possible, but this feels pretty useful in general for us. Yes it could be mis-used, but I don't think that's a reason not to have the feature.