FlexReview, Stacked PRs improvement, DX hangout with Datadog

GHE support for Chrome Extension, Nx support for MergeQueue, and more

Dec 06, 2023

🚀 DX hangout with Ian Nowland from Datadog
🚀 Stacked PRs UX Improvements
🚀 Nx Support for MergeQueue
🚀 Chrome extension now supports self-hosted GitHub
🚀 Beta access for FlexReview - supercharge your code reviews

DX hangout with Ian Nowland from Datadog

Our final event for Hangar DX for 2023 is a conversation with Ian Nowland, previous SVP Core Engineering at Datadog. ➡️ https://lu.ma/5x6gkq46

Ian Nowland is passionate about balancing humanistic and mechanical approaches to management to build software development. His previous work includes running a 700 person core engineering org at Datadog, and SVP of Engineering at Two Sigma. Join the session this Thursday to learn how to scale complex systems and learn from the best!

To view all the talks from this year visit dx.community.

New features

Stacked PRs UX Improvements

We have added a new Stack Status section in both the PR details page and the Chrome Extension for more visibility into stacked PRs. It also shows the status of each individual PR in the stack.

Nx Support for MergeQueue

Nx is a popular build tool for monorepos. We wrote some documentation for how someone can easily identify affected targets when using Nx using a GitHub action to integrate with Aviator MergeQueue.

GitHub Enterprise Server support for Chrome Extension

We added GitHub Enterprise Server (self-hosted GitHub) support for Chrome Extension. In the extension configuration page, you can add additional GitHub URLs that extension should work on.

Beta access: FlexReview - supercharge your code reviews

We are working a new tool to improve the cycle time by using smart code reviewer assignment. If your team is struggling with “too many reviewers” or “stale reviews”, and want to try out the beta, reply back.

Bug fixes and improvements

Added queue position on the PR details page.
Post comment in response to Slash commands on GitHub PRs.
Added new pull request activity to the timeline: approved, delayed, bot_pr_created.
Ensured that the Aviator GitHub checks status is updated on /aviator refresh.

Chrome Extension

Removed noisy synchronized activity.
Added dequeue button when the PR is pending.

Reset webhooks

Fixed bug with pr_reset_count.
Added new fields to the payload: bot_pull_request, closed_bot_pr_count.

On-prem release

Latest release: 2023.12.01-1

Release notes

Aviator Updates