It's fine to allow some senior engineers to merge a pull request without going through CI and/or code review, but the discipline the PR process introduces is hi

It's fine to allow some senior engineers to merge a pull request without going through CI and/or code review, but the discipline the PR process introduces is highly desirable, whether working on open-source or not. It's not a question of trust, it's a question of avoiding unchallenged assumptions and blind spots.