Requiring manual intervention to handle a blocked pipeline over a non-issue defeats the whole purpose of continuous integration, not to mention that you are suggesting adding twice the complexity as an alternative to not adding any complexity at all.
And should I stress again that there is absolutely zero positive tradeoffs?
Who’s blocking any pipelines here? If you’re running a PR process at all, these changes are being pushed to a feature branch and reviewed before getting merged to master. If you have a feature branch that’s failing CI, that doesn’t block me from merging my feature branch once my PR is approved.
As I specifically said, the CI should fail on the feature branch. If you’re only running CI on master, you’re going to run into the exact same problem if your unit tests fail. The way to avoid that problem is to run the unit tests on your feature branch, and if you’re doing that you might as well run the linters too.
And should I stress again that there is absolutely zero positive tradeoffs?