Seventy-second monthly bors newsletter Jan 1, 2023
Last December, the container was updated to Debian Bullseye
Read more...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.
bors r+
, adding it to the merge queueThe cool part of separating the merging from the publishing is that the exact integration of pull requests that end up in the main branch 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.
Last December, the container was updated to Debian Bullseye
Read more...This November, bors's Gitpod and sync features were fixed
Read more...This October, bors underwent some internal maintenance
Read more...This September, bors landed a dependency bump
Read more...This August, we made several document improvements
Read more...This July, bors-ng became more robust to race conditions
Read more...This June, no notable changes were landed
Read more...This May, bors got an env variable for HTTP proxying
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Read more...This April, it mostly just bumped transitive deps
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