I built an open-source tool for the “reviewer forgot about my MR” problem
I’ve been using GitLab Self-Managed for quite a while, and one recurring problem kept annoying me: someone is assigned as a reviewer, gets the notification, adds it to their To-Do… and then simply forgets about it.
A few days later the MR is still waiting for review.
GitLab has notifications and review requests, but I found that they don’t really solve the “what is currently waiting on me?” problem, especially when you’re dealing with many repositories.
So I built ReviewNudge, an open-source, self-hosted tool that sends a daily digest showing the merge requests that are currently waiting on you, including how long they’ve been waiting.
It is specifically designed for GitLab Self-Managed, including Free instances.
The admin can configure various notifications channels, at the moment e-email, Microsoft teams, slack and Telegram are supported. Adding new channels should not be too complicated.
GitHub: https://github.com/sim186/ReviewNudge
I’m mainly looking for feedback from people who actually deal with this problem. How do you currently handle forgotten/pending reviews?