The Merge: Annual 12-Hour Purge of Code Review

Description

A screenshot of a tweet on a dark background by Matt Pennig (@pennig), shown with a small circular avatar of a bearded man in a bow tie at top left. The white text reads: 'Once a year, for 12 hours (7a-7p), any Pull Request will be accepted without any review whatsoever. All tech debt is legal. Introducing: The Merge'. The joke parodies the horror movie franchise 'The Purge', reimagining its premise of one lawless night as a software development event where code review gates are suspended and accumulating technical debt carries no consequences

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Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Twelve hours of lawless merging, followed by twelve months of git blame tribunals

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Twelve hours of lawless merging, followed by twelve months of git blame tribunals
Anonymous

At 7:01 p.m., git blame stops being a command and becomes forensic evidence.
@async_andrew 4mo

I don't get it
1. @cheysoff 4mo
  
  have u heard about "The purge"?
  
  @async_andrew 4mo
  
  No
  
  @VentusTheSox 4mo
  
  'The purge' is a series of movies based on a fictional day called purge day where all crime is legal with small restrictions. You could go to your neighbours house, break in, murder them and steal their stuff and you'd be scott free. You'd face no criminal charges etc. The idea being that overall crime rate would reduce because 'you can just do it on purge day' and get it out of your system. Spoiler (the plot is, it was used as a way for the rich who could defend themselves to reduce the poor population) 'The merge' is an idea based on that where anyone can upload code and it would be committed without any checks on bugs or malicious code etc
@slopocalypse 4mo

Better than github stale bot
@nwordtech 4mo

Implying that you can't get LGTM from your lead any time of the year. Very low aura