On Sun, May 12, 2019 at 11:09 PM Basil L. Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
wrote:

> Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
>
> > Is there also some name/process whereby somebody can submit a patch for
> > discussion, without the expectation it will be merged into master?  Kind
> > of "I think this patch might be a good idea because ...., what do you
> > say?"?
>
> GitHub pull requests can be marked as "drafts" on creation (this is a
> relatively new feature), but I'm not sure if GitLab supports this yet.
>

GitLab has (and has had for quite some time) the convention of using "WIP:
..." in the title of the MR (Merge Request).
-- 
Simon.