Scheduled reminders updates in GitHub app for Microsoft Teams

The new Scheduled Reminders UI

We made significant enhancements to schedule reminders experience in GitHub app for Microsoft Teams.

  • We have introduced a first class UI to configure your pending pull request reminders. And as part of this UI, we added a bunch of advanced controls that will help you in fine tuning your reminders.
  • We relaxed the administrator requirement to configure reminders. Now, any contributor can schedule reminders in MS Teams for the repositories he/she has access.
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This will ensure you get reminders for the pull request that need your attention and there is no unnecessary noise in the channel.
Learn more about schedule reminders here.

Issue card updates

We made few more improvements to the issue notifications experience.

  • Introduced issue comment, close/reopen capabilities in GitHub personal app.
  • Made few updates to the look and feel of the GitHub issue notification card.
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For more information visit the GitHub app guidance for Microsoft Teams.

We've made exciting design improvements to GitHub Actions to promote better discoverability and accessibility. The improvements include:

  • An improved navigation experience that makes it easier to search workflows and workflow runs.
  • Added structure to better represent the hierarchy between caller and called reusable workflows.
  • A better mobile experience that is more consistent and supports multiple viewports.

Workflow run

For questions or to share your feedback, visit the GitHub Actions community.

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On September 5, 2022, we reverted a recent change to our indirect pull request merge logic that was causing some pull requests to be incorrectly marked as merged. This could happen if a pull request's head branch was force pushed and resulted in the pull request showing no new commits compared to the base branch. The original change went live on August 1, 2022 and caused confusion about why some pull requests were marked as merged by a contributor who did not have the necessary permissions. It also had the side effect of removing the "first time contributor" flag from these contributors without them having made an accepted contribution by the repository maintainers. Depending on repository settings, this could have allowed first time contributors to run GitHub Actions workflows based on their branches.

At no point were users able to push changes or merge pull requests in repositories to which they did not have appropriate authorization. After the change was reverted, GitHub conducted an investigation into any bypasses of the "first time contributor" flag and found no evidence of abuse.

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