[core-workflow] New Github Features

[Nick Coghlan]

On 2 April 2016 at 06:59, Brett Cannon <brett at python.org> wrote:
> So this support of squash merging may be useful. It really depends on how we
> try and support porting changes between versions and Misc/NEWS.

Having the bot handle squashing is likely still desirable, since the
flow you really want is:

- squash & rebase the PR
- run the test suite/build the docs (depending on modified files)
- commit if successful

Having what-you-commit and what-you-tested be different always loses
some of the benefits of pre-commit CI (regardless of whether the
differences arise from merging, rebasing, squashing, or some
combination thereof)

There's still value in a "check" CI run to see whether a patch is even
worth trying to commit, but it's a separate activity from actually
gating commits on the test suite passing.

Cheers,
Nick.

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