Today a tech lead with admin role on GH opened a PR, approved it for himself and merged it, because he could override GH rules. The PR had failing unit tests. I

Today a tech lead with admin role on GH opened a PR, approved it for himself and merged it, because he could override GH rules. The PR had failing unit tests. It went straight to prod and caused 20 minutes downtime of one functionality. We do test things, sometimes you're just not prepared for all the permutations of the idiocy out there... This is more common than you think. Only a few days HP update bricked their printers https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bricks-hp-printers-makes-them-unable-to-use-hp-cartridges/ https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/03/firmware-update-bric... Similar thing happened to Hisense https://old.reddit.com/r/Hisense/comments/18xnmz9/the_latest_update_just_broke_my_tv/ https://old.reddit.com/r/Hisense/comments/18xnmz9/the_latest... Samsung phones: https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/galaxy-s10-phones-smartthings-update-boot-loop https://www.androidcentral.com/phones/galaxy-s10-phones-smar...