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by HotHotLava 926 days ago
Unlike 40 years ago these commits will be reviewed by an experienced colleague and automatically unit and integration tested, so there's no benefit anymore to training people separately before being allowed to touch the real codebase.

Back in the day people with SVN/CVS commit access would push directly to the main branch after testing locally, and testing would be done as part of preparing a release, so it was more necessary to have a "safety" period where new people could get used to the new codebase.