Today in pmaports!7588 we (@craftyguy and me) discovered,the merge-bot can merge to protected branches like `v25.12`. IIRC merges to protected branches are only allowed for CCs and TCs are not allowed to merge to such branches. But if I (as TC) can assign the bot to merge to a protected, then this rule is circumvented. I would like to have a clear situation, that either - we do nothing and TCs shall not assign the bot for merges to protected branches - reflect the rules in the bots settings, so the bot reports an error if a TC assigns it to a MR to a protected branch While I see there might be a small chance of TCs having to push emergency fixes to protected branches, I feel that there is more harm, if a TC would trigger a merge to a protected branch before the MR has been properly reviewed and therefore a suboptimal solution would be merged. @pabloyoyoista could we have this put on the agenda for the next CC& TC meeting?