Strict Mode for your Continuous Testing | bors-ng

Bors is a GitHub bot that prevents merge skew / semantic merge conflicts, so when a developer checks out the main branch, they can expect all of the tests to pass out-of-the-box.

You open and review pull requests like normal on GitHub
When it's good-enough, instead of merging immediately, you comment bors r+, adding it to the merge queue
Bors merges your pull request into a staging area, and runs your automated test suite
If staging passes, then it is copied to master

The cool part of separating the merging from the publishing is that the exact integration of pull requests that end up in master have already been tested before any developers try to work on it or users try to deploy it. It means less reverting commits after merging them, less hunting down others' mistakes before being able to do any of your own work, and, because bors does everything in the background, less waiting around for tests to run.

This January, we fixed and responded to long-standing bugs and complaints

Last December, priority bumping and CircleCI integration were improved.

This November, a few scalability problems were fixed

This October, the short form of `committer` was fixed

This September, bors was upgraded to Elixir 1.7

Running more than one GitHub app with the same name

This August, bugs affecting big repositories and delegation were fixed

This July, bors landed a fix that can help if the Installation webhook gets missed for some reason

This June, GitHub Reviews-related bugs got fixed

This May, I added support for gating on the new GitHub Checks API

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