leverages your CODEOWNERS file in your GitLab project to automate the process of selecting reviewers for merge requests with Axolo.
Either as a free standalone auto assign reviewers feature, or as a complete collaboration app for engineering teams in Slack, Axolo is the best partner to manage your GitLab merge requests.
You can automate your review requests on GitLab in a few minutes for free. Follow the steps below to get started.
Install the Auto Assign Reviewers for GitLab application on your project, and select if Axolo should invite everyone mentionnend in your CODEOWNERS file or only a subset of them.
Update your GitLab CODEOWNERS files by adding an integer at the end of each line. The integer represents the number of reviewers you want to assign to merge requests for this line.
You can test if Axolo invites your reviewer by opening a new merge request. Axolo will use the account of the person who installed the application for the invites. If you would like to use a different account, please contact us.
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Assigning reviewers to merge requests can be a manual and error-prone process. With Axolo's integration, GitLab auto-assign reviewers leverages your CODEOWNERS file to ensure every merge request gets the attention it deserves.
"Slack integration with GitLab works like magic. It helps to do code reviews much faster and more efficiently. As Slack is one place notification centre in our company, it is helpful to see what mrs, where you are a reviewer, is open to. Helps to receive notifications when someone answers on the discussion thread. Also, the team and support of Axolo are ultra-client-oriented. They answered questions in chat fast and even arranged a call when we had some functionality thing to discuss."
Axolo goes beyond basic GitLab features to setup GitLab Slack notifications by integrating seamlessly into your team's process:
Axolo simplifies team collaboration with daily reminders for GitLab merge requests. These reminders ensure that your team stays on top of outstanding reviews, minimizing delays in the merge request review process. By keeping your team aligned, Axolo helps you maintain momentum in your development cycles and effectively support GitLab merge request reviewers in providing timely feedback. With tailored updates, you'll never miss a critical review.
Streamline your stand-up meetings using Axolo's automated merge request recaps. The tool gathers updates on your team's progress, ensuring GitLab merge request reviewers stay informed and focused. These recaps reduce context-switching and enable meaningful discussions during stand-ups.
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Code quality has improved, engineers have a better understanding of what their colleagues are working on, and code is getting shipped much faster. Time from pull request open to review to merge is WAY faster, and engagement with reviews is much higher for our team. Axolo's team is also unbelievably fast in resolving issues when we run into them. Pleasure to work with them.
TylerCTO, Sproutfi
Been an early user & have not found anything else which comes close to improving our PR workflow. Love the way Axolo helps us maintain sanity across our pull request reviews & keeping the entire team on top of what needs their attention. In addition, I love the way the product has evolved over the past few months. The team listens to the customers & delivers above & beyond!
Akshay KatyalHead of Engineering, Backstage
Our developers have really enjoyed the increased focus it brings, which is especially important as our team grows. As a fully remote organization using the correct communication tools is vital, and Axolo balances things nicely.
Joe RowleyVP of Engineering, Curebase
Axolo is an incredible tool for connecting PRs with our everyday engineering discussion on Slack. It integrates seamlessly and makes it so as a manager, I never lose track of my engineers' work. For my engineers, it allows them to discuss and collaborate without losing a thread in different contexts. Overall it keeps us moving swiftly throughout the sprint and continuously reviewing and merging code!
JacobCTO, HeraldAPI
Axolo has made it easier to hold developers and QA engineers accountable for reviewing and merging pull requests on a timely basis. Our average PR time-to-merge was 2.40 days before Axolo, this has been reduced to 1.51 days after only using it for 2 weeks.
DanDirector of Infrastructure, House Rx
GitHub and Slack used to be communication silos for us - discussion about work would exist in one or the other and we'd lose shared context of the work being done. Not anymore!
Mark GoodheadCEO, Longshot Systems
Axolo is an amazing tool that helps to reduce context-switching. Before we installed it, we had to constantly switch between Slack and GitHub to interact with pull requests and provide/receive feedback on them.
DanCTO, Lambda Direct
We used to send each other our GitHub PR links on Slack to ask for a review. Having Axolo made it a zero-effort thing. Having discussions on Slack is much more natural and Axolo does a great job doing it. The support is amazing as well! Arthur and Sydney proactively reach out to ask if we're facing any issues and even released one feature request within hours!
Anubhav MalikCTO, Weekday
Axolo is a must-have for teams using GitHub. My team can discuss pull requests without leaving Slack now. Axolo helped us merge pull requests faster in a more seamless way. I have been waiting for this product for so long!
PawelCTO, Juo.io
I've been a CTO at various companies for a decade now. One of my biggest pain points has always been pull request review responsiveness. I've tried so many home baked solutions. Axolo is the app that solves the problem perfectly.
Dee EvansCTO, Staqfi
Axolo provides a scalable, enterprise-grade solution for large teams, ensuring merge requests move swiftly through the development pipeline with automatic assignments in GitLab. Request a free demo to explore how Axolo's customizable GitLab auto-assign reviewer feature can be tailored to fit your team's workflow.
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For engineering managers and developers, Axolo is a lightweight yet robust addition to your project management toolkit, designed to streamline review times and reduce friction in merge request management.
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