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Stale pull request alert

When an employee's Github pull request has been open for 7 days, send an alert to the author and their manager.

When this happens

Github pull request is open for extended period

How to trigger an alert when a pull request on Github is stale

With Rippling’s Workflow Automator, you can automatically trigger an alert when a pull request is open on Github for a specific period of time.

What do you need?

Rippling App Management

Github

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Recipe Overview

There are many reasons a pull request may become inactive or stale in the course of building a product—it might be related to a feature you decide not to release, or inadvertently forgotten in the day-to-day shuffle.

Whatever the reason, it’s easy for stale requests to go unnoticed and pile up, adding unnecessary clutter and cognitive load to your otherwise streamlined operations.

With this Recipe, you’ll be better equipped to stay on top of your stale requests. When a pull request in Github is open for seven days, Rippling will automatically send a notification to the pull request’s author and their manager, alerting them to the stale request.

Seven days not long enough? As with all our workflow Recipes, you can customize this template to your exact needs, including when it should trigger, what the actions should be, who it should go to, and more.

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About Rippling App Management

Manage group policies, grant or deny account access, and authenticate users to keep your company data secure. Stay a step ahead with role-based access control that automatically determines who should get access to which apps like Google Workspace, Slack, and Office 365.

About Rippling HRIS

Manage all your people operations from one powerful, intuitive system. From payroll to benefits, employee engagement to time tracking, Rippling's deep understanding of your employees and operations helps you automate away busy work. Finally, you can focus on the important stuff—your people.

About Github

GitHub is a software code hosting and collaboration tool with a community of millions of people using it to build software, share information, collaborate on projects, offer support, and more. GitHub also creates and supports development tools like Atom, Electron, and Desktop.

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