If they don't, your changes are not going in. Everyone has collective code ownership for all of the code. That is, each time a programming pair touches the code, it should get improved, refactored, and simplified There must be a release station. No one releases from their own workstation. The longer you wait to integrate, the more pain you will create.
Developers integrate multiple times per day in practice.
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