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The most developed GitLab Slack integration for merge requests
GitLab integration with Slack 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. It helps to receive notifications when someone answers on the discussion thread. We also use an additional review plugin for IDEA, which also synchronises comments with GitLab and Axolo works great with this. 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.”
A GitLab Slack integration bridges the gap between your development platform and team communication by automating and streamlining notifications for merge requests (MRs). With this integration, your team receives real-time alerts directly in Slack, ensuring that review requests are promptly addressed. The integration also centralizes all MR discussions into dedicated channels, fostering collaboration while reducing context switching. By customizing notifications to align with your team’s workflow, it helps maintain focus and enhances overall productivity.
Code review delays can slow down your development. Axolo’s automated channels and daily GitLab merge request updates help your team stay informed and ensure timely reviews, cutting down on delays.
“I've been a CTO at various companies for a decade now. One of my biggest pain points has always been MR review responsiveness. I've tried so many home baked solutions. Axolo is the app that solves the problem perfectly.”
Inefficient communication and poor collaboration can result in lost information. Axolo generates temporary Slack channels for each MR, centralizing all discussions and preserving context, thereby enhancing team collaboration.
“We used to send each other our GitLab MR 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.”
Too many notifications distract your team and reduce efficiency. Axolo offers customized alerts and scheduling, so your team gets important updates only when needed, helping them stay focused and minimizing interruptions.
“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.”
Axolo has made it easier to hold developers and QA engineers accountable for reviewing and merging pull requests. 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.
Axolo brings all merge request discussions
into a short-lived Slack channel.
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Our GitLab Slack integration improves code review processes and team collaboration by delivering intelligent notifications that help teams stay on track. Teams can set reminders for pending merge requests, receive targeted updates on CI/CD pipeline progress, and get daily summaries to keep everyone in sync during stand-ups.
Leverage your CODEOWNERS file in your GitLab project to automate the process of selecting reviewers for merge requests and improve your development workflow with Axolo.
Choose the optimal time for your team to receive reminders about pending merge requests. Axolo delivers daily alerts only if the merge request hasn't been reviewed recently.
Passively receive updates for your CI/CD inside your Slack channels. Axolo will notify you if there is a conflict, or if some CI/CD pipelines don’t go through.
Configure Axolo to deliver daily MR summaries to designated channels for streamlined stand-ups. These summaries will keep your team informed and responsible.
Our Slack Gitlab integration provides team-specific notifications, sending new GitLab merge request alerts to team channels and updating the content based on various actions like a reviewer adding their review or changes in the MR status (draft, awaiting review, work in progress, mergeable, etc.).
Schedule your merge request reviews and receive notifications from Axolo only during your preferred times. Keep your coding sessions free from interruptions and maintain your concentration.
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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
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