Merging pull requests before 72 hours

[Joshua Root]

I agree with the points in Mojca's first message in the thread.

On 2018-10-15 09:20 , Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Oct 2018 at 00:10, Blair Zajac wrote:
>>
>> We could add a rule that should help a bit that openmaintainer only lets people do minor version bumps, e.g. X.Y to X.(Y+1) and X.Y.Z to X.Y.(Z+1). This doesn’t solve the Lua 5.2 to 5.3 one, but it would prevent the Python 2.7 to 3.7.
> 
> This is pretty useless general strategy as a general rule because
> every project does the versioning in a different way. If we were to do
> it this way, then every single port would need to specify what
> precisely is allowed (to which versions it is ok to update).

Perhaps we could add a checkbox for "I have verified that this update
does not introduce any API or ABI incompatibilities." I expect
contributors would be unlikely to check that off untruthfully.

- Josh