[quote="cybrnook, post:116, topic:545"]
So I thought that other users would not be able to see my changes (without having to manually search my entire fork, down to the folder level). So I thought that by clicking the create PR from changes button would publish the PR only against my local fork, not yet going against LEDE.
[/quote]Yeah, others can see your branch and commits that you have pushed to your Github fork origin, (but naturally not any stuff that is in just your local repo). And others can even clone your fork or download individual commits from it.
To get others to notice things during development, you might need to say in the forum that please check my new stuff on topic XXX in my branch ZZZZ. One good example is the thread about ipq806x thermal sensor driver development/backport that contains a lot of work-in-progress links commits in dissent's Github repo. Supporting thermal sensors on ipq806x
PR is needed only in the final step when you want to ask the code to be imported into LEDE upstream master.