[pizza_pleb]

Thanks for the input. I plan on creating a version for authors too.

If it's possible in your organization or release strategy, self-deployment is good for the reasons you say, and it corroborates Larry Wall's virtue of hubris [0].

The PR author is like a salesman. You should be making the lives of your customers easier and incentivizing them to look at your product in order to move things forward. That being said, you should prioritize team profit and not your own (i.e. don't be a crooked salesman).

[0]: http://threevirtues.com/