kodiak

Hello HN, Kodiak is an open source GitHub app that can update, approve, and merge pull requests. At work we were getting frustrated waiting for CI to merge pull requests, so I built Kodiak to automate this tedious work. With Kodiak you don't need to wait for CI checks to finish, you simply add a label and Kodiak will merge your pull request when ready. It's super helpful when you have long running CI or "Require branches to be up to date before merging" configured via GitHub branch protection. It's really simple to get started: https://kodiakhq.com/docs/quickstart github repo: https://github.com/chdsbd/kodiak

> If you insist on no errors on master ever you will kill throughput. There are a large number of automated tools which will help you prevent merging code that could break master: https://github.com/chdsbd/kodiak#prior-art--alternatives. The basic approach is to make a new branch from master, apply one or more commits on top of that branch, run the tests, and if tests pass, merge those commits (with fast-forward) back onto master. This makes it very difficult to get broken commits on master, as they have to pass the tests before. It is possible if you have a flaky test suite, but in my experience it happens very rarely, and is usually very easy to fix if something creeps in. In my experience, they speed up throughput, not slow it down, especially when you account for the disruption that merging broken code to master can be. https://graydo

A bit of shameless self promotion: I built a more basic merge bot for GitHub that efficiently updates and merges PRs because we were wasting a ton of time keeping branches updated at work. https://github.com/chdsbd/kodiak