A State of Continuous Merge: The Secret to More Productive Dev Teams
summary
Analysis of about 1 million PRs across thousands of teams shows pull requests sit idle roughly half their life, a third idle 80% of the time, and often take three to four days to merge (some waiting three weeks for first review). Between 25–40% LGTM comments are rubber stamps. The proposed fix is a rule‑engine “continuous merge”: auto‑approve trivial PRs, route risky files to extra reviewers, run cheaper tests first, and integrate with CI/CD; getstream.cm implements this approach.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and background
- 3:20From waterfall to DevOps
- 7:58The pull request dilemma
- 10:49Cycle time inefficiencies
- 17:56What is continuous merge
- 20:28Differential PR handling
- 25:27Conclusion and Q&A
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