RFC disable branch creation on origin

[moul]

RFC disable branch creation on origin

[thehowl]

My counter-argument is that branch creation on origin allows me to have "stacked" PRs. It's also the reason why I switched to developing on origin rather than my fork. This is an example of a stacked PR: #1700

So I can have dev/morgan/1, then dev/morgan/2 based on it, and then dev/morgan/3 based on /2. When 1 is merged; 2 is automatically re-based on master.

If we use forks, we can only create these in the same forks.

[thehowl]

at the end of the day, there are hacks we can do to have more or less the same thing

thehowl:dev/1 can have thehowl:dev/2 based on it. I can create a PR on gnolang:master for both, and put in the description of dev/2 that they can look at my own fork to see a nicer diff.

Not ideal, but also something that other contributors can copy freely as a workflow.

Sounds good to me, as long as we maintain the possibility for certain team-members to create "useful" branches on origin (like patch/gnochess and patch/v0.1.1-sync).

[moul]

I'm fine with allowing some exceptions, such as the long-term alternative base and things like the gnochess temp fork.