Pull Request Automation

Table of Contents

• Overview
• When to Use
• Quick Start
• Reference Guides
• Best Practices

Overview

Implement pull request automation to streamline code review processes, enforce quality standards, and reduce manual overhead through templated workflows and intelligent assignment rules.

When to Use

• Code review standardization
• Quality gate enforcement
• Contributor guidance
• Review assignment automation
• Merge automation
• PR labeling and organization

Quick Start

Minimal working example:

# .github/pull_request_template.md

## Description

Briefly describe the changes made in this PR.

## Type of Change

- [ ] Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
- [ ] New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
- [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to change)
- [ ] Documentation update

## Related Issues

Closes #(issue number)

## Changes Made

- Change 1
- Change 2

## Testing

- [ ] Unit tests added/updated
// ... (see reference guides for full implementation)

Reference Guides

Detailed implementations in the references/ directory:

Guide	Contents
GitHub Actions: Auto Review Assignment	GitHub Actions: Auto Review Assignment
GitHub Actions: Auto Merge on Approval	GitHub Actions: Auto Merge on Approval
GitLab Merge Request Automation	GitLab Merge Request Automation
Bors: Merge Automation Configuration	Bors: Merge Automation Configuration, Conventional Commit Validation
PR Title Validation Workflow	PR Title Validation Workflow
Code Coverage Requirement	Code Coverage Requirement

Best Practices

✅ DO

• Use PR templates for consistency
• Require code reviews before merge
• Enforce CI/CD checks pass
• Auto-assign reviewers based on code ownership
• Label PRs for organization
• Validate commit messages
• Use squash commits for cleaner history
• Set minimum coverage requirements
• Provide detailed PR descriptions

❌ DON'T

• Approve without reviewing code
• Merge failing CI checks
• Use vague PR titles
• Skip automated checks
• Merge to protected branches without review
• Ignore code coverage drops
• Force push to shared branches
• Merge directly without PR