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.