Features

Create a pull request channel

By default, Axolo will create a Slack channel for every new pull request opened by one onboarded engineer.

Receive notifications from GitHub in channels

Axolo reacts to four kinds of notifications from GitHub.

1. Issue comments & code review comments

Axolo is complete Slack-GitHub integration. Slack messages in pull request channels will create issue comments in GitHub, and code review comments in GitHub will create dedicated Slack threads (and conversely).

If you sign in with your GitHub and Slack profile during the engineer onboarding, Axolo will be able to write these comments on your behalf.

2. Pull request checks

When all your pull request checks are completed, Axolo can send you a summary with the status of each check-in in the PR channel. If each commit creates new PR checks, we only send a new notification if the overall status of the checks has changed (success -> error)

3. Deployments

Each deployment notification concerning repositories linked with Axolo will be sent directly to a dedicated _axolo_deployments channel. These notifications are composed of the id of the deployment, the creator, the status, and the name of the deployed branch.

Stand-ups

You can set up Axolo to send you an open PR summary daily. Select what team should be involved (the whole organization or a specific team), what day the PR summary should be sent, and the time, and keep your stand-ups short & productive!

/lgtm from a channel

/lgtm (optional) comment is an Axolo command. The LGTM (Looks Good To Me) command will approve the current pull request in GitHub. You can add an optional comment to the review.

Assign yourself as a reviewer from a team channel

By default, Axolo adds a 🔍 reaction to every new pull request notification in _axolo channel or team channels.

You can click on the reaction from Slack to assign yourself as a reviewer. Axolo will assign you as a reviewer on GitHub/GitLab and will invite you directly to the pull request channel. If you were already a reviewer, removing the reaction would unassign you as a reviewer and would make you leave the channel.

Here is an example:

Stay on top of your team pull requests

By clicking on the Axolo bot in your Slack you can have access to your open pull requests

Open PR summary with /axolo command

Find all your open PRs with one simple command:

• /axolo open to show all open PRs of your organization,

• /axolo me for your open PRs,

• /axolo team [team name] to show all PRs from a specific team.

  

Do not create a channel for a specific pull request

You can choose not to create a Slack channel by adding _noslackchannel in the body of your soon-to-be GitHub pull request.

Choose individual code-reviewing time slots

Each engineer onboarded on Axolo can find their time slot settings in their Axolo home in Slack. Anyone can create its code reviewing slots and Axolo will only invite the reviewer in its dedicated time slots.

For now, every working day will share the same slots (from Monday to Friday).

Bookmark pull request information

By default, Axolo will create the following bookmarks. They automatically update whenever there are changes to your pull request on GitHub. From the example below:

Resolve discussions (or threads) from Slack - GitLab only

Reacting with the ✅ emoji on Slack will resolve the discussion in GitLab.

Merge from a Slack channel - GitLab only

The /axolo merge command from a MR channel will merge it if you are authenticated on Axolo with GitLab.