[sjm-yc-acct]

You're right--communicating about the intent of a patch is a good idea, especially if that intent is outside of normal expectations.

In a similar vein, I recently learned about prefixing a pull request on Github/Gitlab with "[WIP]", or a "work in progress", to suggest that the proposed changes are for informational purposes or not yet complete.

[dsumenkovic]

Thanks for mentioning GitLab, Community Advocate here.

WIP is really used, and we even have documentation about it https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/work_...