[bryanlarsen]

I'd be pretty leery of limiting who can send pull requests, but what Github needs to do is make it very clear that the big "merge pull request" button is usually a BAD idea unless it's a doc-only change. They should

- create a branch or tag containing the merge so that it's easy to pull the change without having to add additional remotes.

- provide instructions on how to pull, merge and push the request saying explicitly that the merge should be inspected and tested before doing the push.

- make the latter more obvious to click than "merge pull request" button

EDIT: I'm not saying that Linus needs this, but responding to Linus' comment about it being much too easy to do poor-quality commits.

[DasIch]

I think it would be nice if "pulling" would create a new branch (with a specifiable name) per default so that you can run tests and merge to master locally.

[greyfade]

That sounds like exactly what Linus does with pull requests on LKML.