> Most of the things you allude to suggest that you’ve never worked with a competent release manager or qa organization. You’re right, I oversee an 8 person pr

> Most of the things you allude to suggest that you’ve never worked with a competent release manager or qa organization. You’re right, I oversee an 8 person product team for a 20 person company. Not a huge organization. QA is a shared function and we don’t have a “release manager” on staff. I’m genuinely confused about what you’re trying to say. Sounds like you’ve had a bad experience with branch restrictions. It would be interesting to hear what the workflow was and how branch restrictions, etc, got in your way.