And the whole thing with running CI builds on branches not being “integrating” until merge time is so funny to me.

Like, does this person not know that you can merge master back into a feature branch, such that you are, in fact, integrating the feature branch up to date with master? And it’s done… Gasp without breaking the master build for everyone else in the mean time!?!

And the parts about pair programming and knowledge sharing are easy to fix, too. Just have regularly scheduled pairing sessions with the people who need to knowledge-share.

Trunk-based suggestions always comes across to me as “I don’t understand how to do feature branches/PR-based development”