Scheduled triggers, config API, DX meetup with Buildkite

Queue from CLI, Slack notification with Pilot, scheduled pause / unpause

Jul 19, 2023

🚀 Off-the-record hangout with Buildkite’s CEO
🚀 Scheduled events
🚀 New Pilot customizations
🚀 Queue PR from av CLI
🚀 Modify / review Aviator config with API

Hangout with Buildkite’s CEO

The Hangar community is hosting Keith Pitt, CEO of Buildkite for an AMA on Thursday July 20, 2023 at 4pm PT/ 7pm ET. Join our DX community to ask questions and participate in the discussion afterwards on Slack. RSVP: https://dx.community/

Scheduled triggers

Set up rules to trigger actions on a fixed schedule using the unix cron format. Example:

scenarios:
- name: pause the queue
  trigger:
    schedule:
      # pause the queue at 11pm UTC every Friday
      cron_utc: "0 23 * * 5"
  actions:
    - mergequeue: pause

Pilot Updates

We’ve introduced some additional triggers and actions to our Pilot scenarios.

mergequeue triggers

Write customized actions when MergeQueue specific actions happen, such as when a PR is queued, merged, blocked, etc. Learn more.

pause / unpause

Have the ability to pause or unpause the repo or base branch based on a trigger. Learn more.

slack actions

Use Slack channel hook_url to specify any Slack channel for notifications.

Modify / review Aviator config with API

Read and modify Aviator YAML configuration, and review config history using REST API. Read the docs for details.

Queue PR from av CLI

We’ve introduced quality of life features to our open source CLI that will make managing pull requests easier. Read the docs.

av pr queue was added, which allows users to queue pull requests on MergeQueue.
av pr status was added, which provides a CLI view of current pull request state.

Bug fixes and improvements

Fixed bug with editing config via the UI.
Fixed bug for strip_html_comments parsing.
Correctly handle webhooks for conversation resolution.
Added a new webhook for config change event.
Stacked PRs can now be merged with labels.
Draft PRS closed due to queue resets will now document this fact in a comment on the closed pull request.

Onprem release

Latest Release version: `v1.0.2`

This is a major release.

This release published a new frontend to the onprem. Now you can view the PR’s detailed status in your Aviator app. It is also is at par with our cloud-hosted service.

In addition, now Kubernetes configuration is generally available to all onprem users.

Aviator Updates