It’s another monthly burst of news about bors-ng. Bors is a Github bot that prevents merge skew / semantic merge conflicts by testing the exact integration of pull requests before merging them.

In the last month, we landed 15 PRs in the bors-ng repository.

“This Month in Bors” is written in public on GitHub. If you find a mistake, pull requests or issue reports are appreciated!

Notable Additions

• korthout added a bors.toml option for custom commit titles
• BuckyMaler repaired a broken link in the README
• quicksnap fixed a bug in CODEOWNERS file search
• basvandijk fixed CODEWONERS support for individual file owners
• notriddle improved contributor sync, so it would time out less often
• notriddle added support for the the “canceled” Check result

New Contributors

• Nico Korthout (@korthout)
• Bucky Maler (@BuckyMaler)
• Dan Schuman (@quicksnap)
• Bas van Dijk (@basvandijk)

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Who’s using bors?

This month’s featured user is serde_with, a set of convenience functions and macros for Rust’s serialize/deserialize framework.

Got any suggestions for next month? Post a comment on the February pull request.