Best Practices
Requesting reviews on a pull request is a standard part of the workflow of most teams. However, there are a few subtleties to what may sound very basic. When assigning a pull request to a team rather than individuals, the pull request might get stuck forever. The diffusion of responsibility
Changelog
Another quarter of the year passed. It's time to reflect on what we achieved and delivered to our users during those last months. We won't cover various boring bug fixes — only the new and exciting features. Enhanced Branch Protection Support If you use protected branches [https:
Best Practices
Today, we're happy to announce a new feature that just landed in Mergify. You can now use the post_check action to post your custom checks into your pull requests. If you never heard of those, checks are statuses posted at the bottom of a pull request near
How We Do It
A few months ago, we blogged about how we handle our roadmap [https://blog.mergify.io/how-we-handle-our-roadmap-for-mergify/] at Mergify. The tool we mentioned using was Notion [https://notion.so], an all-in-one tool that can adapt to many usage. Notion is a useful tool, and we were able to adapt it
News, Events and Trends
You might have never noticed our accent, but Mergify is registered in the country where cheese is king: France. This has a myriad of implications and a pretty famous one among our peers selling digital services: companies registered in the European Union have to comply with the value-added tax for
Best Practices
While we all have a different way of managing our GitHub workflow, we all have to deal with one annoying thing: conflict. When a pull request modifies a file that has been modified in the meantime, GitHub shows you the famous Resolve conflicts button. This indicates the pull request cannot
Product Features
New Mergify users might wonder what hides behind this cryptic title. Do not fear: I am sure you're going to like it. Before jumping into the feature presentation — which ought to be short as it's a simple variable in your configuration — you need to understand the
Changelog
Three more months have passed, and it's now time for us to share what we built and released over that time frame. Ready? Go! 📦 Batching! That might not sound that exciting, but trust us — it is. Mehdi wrote about it [https://blog.mergify.io/handling-300k-github-events-per-day/] a few days
How We Do It
As Mergify is a pull request automation tool, to execute actions on your pull requests, it needs to be aware of any change done on them. To get notified of any mutation, Mergify relies on the GitHub App webhook mechanism. That means that on any modification done to a pull
Achievements
Last year, GitHub announced the GitHub Sponsors program, a new way for organizations and individuals to contribute to open source. Today, we are glad to announce that you can contribute to Mergify using this program [https://github.com/sponsors/Mergifyio]. We've been providing a free service for thousands
Product Features
When you get hooked into automation, you always want more. For the last years, our users merged more and more pull requests using Mergify, leveraging our unique merge queue system. At some point, your queue so big that you need to organize it. This is especially true when your continuous
Product Features
As Mergify merges more and more pull requests for its users, new behaviors emerge, and new ideas come up. We’re building a tool for developers, and while we started by scratching our own itch, we’re now way beyond that territory — which makes it even more exciting if you