needle is a terminal interface for GitHub pull requests that need a developer’s attention. Rather than presenting an undifferentiated feed of repository activity, it concentrates on work for which the user is the author or has been asked to provide a review.
The tool is intended to reduce the time spent checking pull-request pages throughout the day. It examines review requests, continuous-integration results and pull-request status so users can prioritise action without repeatedly visiting several repositories in a browser.
A developer may be following many repositories while being responsible for only a small subset of their open pull requests. Separating authored changes from incoming review requests makes the queue more actionable. The categorisation is based on recorded pull-request state, not an assessment of code quality.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Collects pull requests authored by the user and pull requests for which they have been requested as a reviewer.
- Can optionally include review requests assigned through a team.
- Shows the latest commit identifier associated with each selected pull request.
- Summarises CI checks, distinguishing successful, failing, running and unavailable results.
- Indicates whether a review is requested, already approved or has no current request.
- Calculates an attention score to sort pull requests according to what may need action.
- Groups results into categories so important items can be distinguished from routine activity.
- Presents the resulting queue in a navigable text interface suitable for daily review work.
Website: github.com/cesarferreira/needle
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Developer: Cesar Ferreira
License: MIT License
needle is written in Rust. Learn Rust with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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