[lbriner]

The way I read that is, if you have a staging environment, it is someone else's job to test things before they deploy (Product Manager etc.) which allows them to merge it and forget it. I agree if it is the dev's job then it wouldn't make sense.

The other issue that is fair is the potential lag between dev and production if you have a gate at staging. This way, a developer is likely to move onto something else instead of watching their baby swim into production with all the errors that could cause!