That’s the question I asked my colleagues and the result was, well … not so surprising.

Many teams have a chat channel where they post the link to their merge request.

If someone does a review for a MR, they add an eyes 👀  emoji to the message, if it’s approved they add a checkmark ✅ and if there are questions they add a speech bubble 💬 or cross mark ❌ .

Other teams only assign people directly in GitHub or GitLab and the ticket system.

And some do a mix of both of them (like my team). If nobody reacts to a MR in our chat, we pick one 🤗

What is interesting: In some teams the reviewer merges the MR, in others the person who wrote the code.

Pressing the merge button is a success experience and we wanted to leave that to the person who wrote the code

But you could also say: Who merges the code is responsible for breaking the pipeline 😅

So how are you doing it?

Message in a channel? Assigning your Team Lead? Or something completely different (drawing straws)? Let me know in the comments.