Review-flow Actions
A set of GitHub Actions that nudged five teams' review turnaround up by around 40% without anyone having to think about them.
+40%
review throughput
5 teams
adopted
- Role
- Engineer
- Timeline
- Q4 2022
- Stack
- GitHub Actions, Node, YAML
- Tags
- DX
§Context
Reviews were the slowest step in our delivery loop. Not because anyone was being careless, but because nobody could see the queue, and small frictions added up.
§What I did
- Wrote a set of GitHub Actions that label PRs by review state and surface a daily "oldest open PR" digest per team.
- Added per-PR checklists that close themselves as reviewers approve, so the author always knows what's left.
- Kept the configuration small enough that any team could adopt it in an afternoon.
§Outcome
Five teams adopted it inside a quarter. Average time-to-merge dropped meaningfully without anyone changing their behavior on purpose.