My current employer has a nice balanced approach to this: everything is a code review. I may need a gatekeeper to approve my change, but I can always submit it.

My current employer has a nice balanced approach to this: everything is a code review. I may need a gatekeeper to approve my change, but I can always submit it. It’s also safer this way. Not even the proper owners should routinely be on production shells or tools with live write access. They also go through peer review with each other. Once the infrastructure is in place for that, it makes sense to open up.