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 to Mergify using this program [https://github.com/sponsors/Mergifyio]. We've been providing a free service for thousands
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. At some point, your queue so big that you need to organize it. This is especially true when your continuous
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 by scratching our own itch, we’re now way beyond that territory — which makes it even more exciting if you
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 effort this past quarter has been put in improving our engine and dashboard. Many of the changes we did are
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 copy it to your stable branches where the bug is present. This is why one of the first features we
GitHub CODEOWNERS on steroids
For the last few years, GitHub has supported a feature named CODEOWNERS [https://help.github.com/en/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/about-code-owners] . If you never heard of it, it’s a file that you can put in your repository, and that will make GitHub assigned pull request reviews to users or teams.
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 continued our growth at a steady pace and brought a lot of new users on board. We’re merging thousands
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 to take a step back to think about what the optimal move to do next. This arrangement of your future
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 Amazon Web Services Cloud Development Kit [https://github.com/aws/aws-cdk] project leverages Mergify to help its contributors. About AWS
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 get informed about new and exciting features, while a great exercise for us to reflect back on our progress! New
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 improving. Yet, we heard that there was one common issue that prevented organizations to adopt Mergify: our pricing model. It’
Batching queries with GraphQL
GraphQL has seen a booming growth over the last years. A large number of API providers are switching to this new paradigm of querying data on the Web. At Mergify [https://mergify.io], we’re no exception. To implement our automation engine, we’re heavy users of the GitHub API