We view an approval on merge request as an affirmation that the approver can be called about this code in the middle of the night. In a sense, it puts other dev

We view an approval on merge request as an affirmation that the approver can be called about this code in the middle of the night. In a sense, it puts other developers with skin in the game. Lack of trust is not an issue, and if it was, it would undermine far more than MRs.