Re:Ask HN: How to Be a Good Technical Lead?
by kevsim on Monday October 19, 2015 @03:24AM
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> you need to be the one that monitors and accepts all pull requests
I disagree at least in part. On my team all of the engineers have the ability (and responsibility) to merge PRs. It empowers them and gives them a feeling of ownership. I let the experts in the affected area decide when code goes in/gets deployed as they're able to manage that better than I ever could.
That being said, when something breaks, it's still the tech lead's problem, even if he/she didn't hit the merge button.
I disagree at least in part. On my team all of the engineers have the ability (and responsibility) to merge PRs. It empowers them and gives them a feeling of ownership. I let the experts in the affected area decide when code goes in/gets deployed as they're able to manage that better than I ever could.
That being said, when something breaks, it's still the tech lead's problem, even if he/she didn't hit the merge button.