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Travis CI added draft pull requests support

Glenn Carremans on June 24, 2019

About 3 months ago I noticed that Github drafts are not triggering Travis CI builds, not even when the draft flag gets removed. ...
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Matt Cowley •

I use WIP bot wherever possible, never touched draft PRs. I much prefer the simplicity of having “🚧” at the start of the title and then the pending bot check over the draft PR UI.

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Glenn Carremans •

But there are benefits that draft PRs have that WIP bot can't provide.

  • There are multiple visible indicators that it is a draft PR, WIP is limited in this.
  • Draft PRs can't be merged, WIP bot can't block merges.
  • If you have a CODEOWNERS file in your repository, a draft pull request will suppress notifications to those reviewers until it is marked as ready for review.
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Matt Cowley •

There are multiple visible indicators that it is a draft PR, WIP is limited in this.

I honestly prefer having the single indicator of the 🚧 emoji in the title.

Draft PRs can't be merged, WIP bot can't block merges.

It can... have branch protection rules in place that require all checks to pass :)

If you have a CODEOWNERS file in your repository, a draft pull request will suppress notifications to those reviewers until it is marked as ready for review.

Never personally worked on a project with code owners, either manually requested views or had a bot that requests reviews once all checks pass.

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Mac Siri •

Oh this is great news! Thanks for sharing this.