Julien Danjou - The Mergify Blog

Julien Danjou

Mergify CEO & Co-Founder

ChatGPT: Shaking Up Recruitment in the Tech World

ChatGPT: Shaking Up Recruitment in the Tech World

A year and a half ago, our startup, Mergify, dove into the exciting yet challenging world of technical recruiting, specifically targeting software engineering talent. As a growing company, we were eager to find bright trainees and apprentices still in school. We believed in hiring individuals with basic algorithm knowledge who

GitHub Pull Request Merge Queue FAQ

GitHub Pull Request Merge Queue FAQ

In February 2023, GitHub released its pull request merge queue feature in public beta. If you have no clue what a merge queue is, you can read about it here or watch our video below. After the announcement, many questions popped up on social media. We built a list of

Freezing your GitHub repository merges

Freezing your GitHub repository merges

Freezing your GitHub repository could mean a lot of things. In that case, I'm not talking about putting it on ice or sending it to GitHub's Artic Code Vault. No, that's not the point here. As controlling the merge flow becomes increasingly important, many engineering teams have encountered the need

Replacing Phabricator Herald rules

Replacing Phabricator Herald rules

If you never heard of Phabricator, you might not be alone. I admit I only started to hear about it recently, while the project started in 2010. Phabricator is essentially a forge, a suite of web-based developments collaborators tools, including multiple tools to do code reviews, track bugs or browse

Running GitHub Actions only on certain pull requests

Running GitHub Actions only on certain pull requests

GitHub Actions is powerful and allows you to run various workflows on your pull requests. There is an entire marketplace [https://github.com/marketplace?category=&query=&type=actions&verification=] of actions that you can use, reuse, and abuse. GitHub Actions became a defacto standard for many developer teams that want

Mergify Changelog 2022Q1

Mergify Changelog 2022Q1

Now's the time to wrap the first quarter of 2022, and it's been a blast. We continued to grow, welcomed new people to the Mergify team, and shipped a few new features. We are proud to power more and more engineers teams worldwide with our automation tooling! Now, let's dive

Our 10 Heroku Tips & Tricks

Our 10 Heroku Tips & Tricks

Since its inception, the Mergify [https://mergify.com] engineering team decided to focus on its product and not spend time building infrastructure. It made a lot of sense as we started as a small team of two engineers with low resources and that the first version of Mergify was an

Mergify Changelog 2021Q4

Mergify Changelog 2021Q4

The last quarter of the year is now wrapped up, and it's time to wish everyone a happy new year. We want to start this changelog edition by looking back to a year ago. Our number of users doubled over the year, which came with its pack of challenges. We

Why your team size is irrelevant

Why your team size is irrelevant

When you work on software helping other software engineers, you end up having an excellent understanding of your craft. At Mergify, we talk to a dozen engineering teams every month, putting us in a pretty good position to understand their problems. This also gives us an average picture of what

Announcing Mergify's SOC 2 Type II Certification

Announcing Mergify's SOC 2 Type II Certification

As security is everyone's priority at Mergify, we are thrilled to announce that Mergify is now SOC 2 Type II certified. This is a huge milestone for the team and a continuity in our commitment to maintaining a high level of trust with our partners, users, and customers. We have

Transition to mergify.com

Transition to mergify.com

Sometimes, you don't need a long blog post. 🤷 This is a public statement to announce that we are transitioning our domain name from mergify.io to mergify.com over the upcoming months. This migration will be transparent to our users. That's all folks. You've been warned.

GitHub announces Pull Request Merge Queue

GitHub announces Pull Request Merge Queue

When you work for so long on the GitHub platform, you see signs nobody can see. It turns out we spotted weeks ago that GitHub was working on its own implementation of merge queues. We were thrilled to see their announcement [https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/272] last week

Mergify Changelog 2021Q3

Mergify Changelog 2021Q3

Time flies, and this is the last update before we close the 2021 year. That's exciting! This quarter was no exception to the rule, and Mergify continued to grow in its number of users, repositories, and automated pull requests. We're thrilled to see more and more users leveraging our engine

Understanding the GitHub Pull Request Workflow

Understanding the GitHub Pull Request Workflow

GitHub allows developers around the world to streamline their development pipelines and maintain a solid history of their projects even while collaborating with many other individuals and teams. However, Git can only take a team so far; it’s a tool that can be used effectively or ineffectively, depending on

How to solve Linus Torvalds' issues about GitHub

How to solve Linus Torvalds' issues about GitHub

While Linus Torvalds is well-known for Linux, he's also reputed for not having his tongue in his pocket. He is often complaining loudly about what he thinks is wrong or damageable to the industry. As the creator of Git 15 years ago, it's interesting to hear what he recently stated

What Is a Git Merge Fast Forward?

What Is a Git Merge Fast Forward?

A Git fast forward is an extremely useful and efficient mechanism for harmonizing your project's main branch with changes introduced in a given feature branch. Git makes ample use of fast-forwarding merges behind the scenes, speeding up your development workflow in the process. Fast-forward merges can help keep your commit

The Best GitHub Productivity Tools

The Best GitHub Productivity Tools

To get the most out of GitHub, it helps to choose the right tools. Developer productivity tools abound, but not all of them are worth adopting to improve your workflow. You can use the best productivity tools for programmers to enhance almost any part of your development process, including getting

The Next Decade of Continuous Integration

The Next Decade of Continuous Integration

I remember officially switching my professional career from being a Linux system administrator to a Python software engineer. It was ten years ago when I decided that rebooting servers was dull. Watching the software engineering team working next to me, seeing them doing git commit -a -m 'friday night commit'

How to Resolve a Merge Conflict?

How to Resolve a Merge Conflict?

GitHub makes collaborating with many different people on a single piece of code or software much easier by managing the details involved in version control alongside your project's evolving history. This makes it especially useful for comparing code changes as they come in and sorting out differences between code submissions

Which Open Source License Should You Use for GitHub Project?

Which Open Source License Should You Use for GitHub Project?

Choosing a distribution license for the software you publish on GitHub can seem confusing at first. After all, there are quite literally hundreds of licenses [https://spdx.org/licenses/] to choose from, all of which are suitable for different purposes and grant users of your code unique rights. For first-time

Mergify Changelog 2021Q2

Mergify Changelog 2021Q2

The second quarter of 2021 has finished. As usual, we got pretty busy and shipped a lot of new features. This quarter has been marked by a massive increase in our number of users and, therefore, our workload. We spent quite some time preparing for significant improvements in our processing

Code Review Best Practices

Code Review Best Practices

Adopting the right code review best practices can drastically speed up your review process while also improving the quality of your reviews. Often enough, code reviews can become areas of contention among members of your team, prompting them to become defensive about work they’ve done or changes they may

How to Pick your GitHub Merge Methods

How to Pick your GitHub Merge Methods

GitHub merge methods can be tough to choose correctly. Implementing the wrong merge method on your project's main branch can detract from your team's ability to follow along and contribute. In other words, using the wrong merge method for the occasion defeats the entire purpose of Git—namely, seamless collaboration

How To Write Good Commit Messages

How To Write Good Commit Messages

Good commit messages make a big difference in your team's ability to stay on top of changes to your codebase. However, coming up with useful and understandable messages is often easier said than done, especially when you’re hard at work. Luckily, there are a few tricks to getting your

How To Automatically Merge GitHub Security Updates

How To Automatically Merge GitHub Security Updates

Managing security updates on GitHub can get hectic in a hurry as third-party dependencies develop at their own pace, separate from your project. Leaving vulnerable dependencies unpatched can open your entire application up to otherwise avoidable threats, but manually reviewing and merging such updates can quickly eat up all of