Changelog Mergify Changelog for 2020Q4 Happy New Year, everyone! We wish a brand new year full of development automation. 🦾 The year 2020 has been fascinating for us. We grew a lot. We saw a ton
Open-Source How to serve static files from GitHub Like many developers out there, you might use GitHub to store your source code. When you're building something pretty simple like a Web application, HTML files, JavaScript code, CSS stylesheets,
Open-Source Introducing Mergify Discussions From the beginning of our adventure, we built Mergify in the open. As we're building a tool for developers, we know how frustrating it can to work with closed software.
Open-Source A React Crisp Component ‌Some time ago, Mergify decided to move his chat widget from Drift to Crisp. What's this, you say? You know, this is the little button at the bottom right of
Features Introducing Referrals Every day, we see more and more users joining Mergify. It turns out that, for the last couple of years, our growth has been fed by word of mouth. Many of our users started to use our service based on a recommendation of one
Use Case Randomly Request Reviews from Your Team 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
Changelog Mergify Changelog for 2020Q3 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
Features Posting Custom Checks on Pull Requests 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.
Startup Why we switched from Notion to Linear A few months ago, we blogged about how we handle our roadmap at Mergify. The tool we mentioned using was Notion, an all-in-one tool that can adapt to many usage.
Startup Handling European VAT with Stripe 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
Use Case Dealing Faster with Conflicting Pull Requests 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
Features Selecting your Bot Account 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
Changelog What's new in Mergify, 2020Q2 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
Python Handling 300k GitHub events per day 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
Open-Source We're now part of GitHub Sponsors 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
Features Introducing Merge Queue Priorities 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.
Features Using templates in your messages 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
Changelog What’s New in Mergify, 2020Q1 Edition As usual, this quarter has been a busy one for us. We still grow and helped many new users getting on board and automating their workflow. A lot of our
Features Improving the backport workflow We spent quite a lot of time maintaining software in the past, with multiple stable branches. When a bug fix is committed in your development branch, you then need to
Use Case GitHub CODEOWNERS on steroids For the last few years, GitHub has supported a feature named CODEOWNERS. If you never heard of it, it’s a file that you can put in your repository, and
Changelog What’s New in Mergify, 2019Q4 Edition This article is the second edition of our quarterly newsletter that summarizes everything that happened during the last quarter for Mergify. This quarter was a busy period for us. We
Python How we handle our roadmap for Mergify Whatever you’re building — a company, a product, or a house — a time comes where you need planning. Pushing random buttons to move forward does not work anymore. You need
User Story Improving your users’ onboarding: the case of Amazon CDK As time passes, we keep seeing new and fancy ways of using Mergify to do other things than just merging pull requests. Today I’d like to dig into how
Changelog What’s New in Mergify, 2019Q3 Edition From now on, we’d like to share with you a summary of everything that happened during the last quarter of Mergify. This is a good way for you to
Features New Pricing We’ve been running Mergify for a few months now, hearing feedback from our users. Many of those reactions were related to bugs, features, that we spent time fixing and
