The latest articles on DEV Community by Koen Hendriks 💻 (@koendev). https://dev.to/koendev https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F37278%2F1db9df71-fba7-45f1-9948-75a223a2d16e.jpg https://dev.to/koendev en Koen Hendriks 💻 Fri, 08 Nov 2019 13:45:52 +0000 https://dev.to/koendev/what-is-the-best-merge-request-flow-563o https://dev.to/koendev/what-is-the-best-merge-request-flow-563o <p>We all have been there where we want our merge request to be checked but no one is responding because they are either busy or don't check their messages. What do you do in these situations?</p> <p><a href="https://i.giphy.com/media/cFkiFMDg3iFoI/giphy.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://i.giphy.com/media/cFkiFMDg3iFoI/giphy.gif" alt="Time to merge" width="400" height="224"></a></p> <p>Who has the power to approve your teams merge request? Do you check each others code within a team or do you only let the other team check your code to prevent tunnel vision?</p> <p>Who is the lucky one to pick up? First come first serve, randomly assigned or do you communicate within the team to share the work load?</p> <p>How do you deal with your project manager looking at you weird once you tell him you had to check 20 merge request all day and that's why you couldn't finish a story?</p> <p>Can you expect the person who left feedback to check again immediately after you applied the feedback?</p> <h2> What do you think? </h2> <p>I would love to hear some of your answers to these questions. What kind of processes do you have in place to prevent frustration around merge requests and their approvals?</p> <p><a href="https://i.giphy.com/media/13zeE9qQNC5IKk/giphy.gif" class="article-body-image-wrapper"><img src="https://i.giphy.com/media/13zeE9qQNC5IKk/giphy.gif" alt="Seal of approval" width="250" height="169"></a></p> git codequality discuss