Company
Date Published
Author
Pat Nakajima
Word count
169
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

GitHub's Status API enhances code quality by integrating pull request statuses into the conversation timeline, allowing developers to view results from multiple continuous integration (CI) systems simultaneously, including platform tests, security checks, and code coverage analyses. This update enables users to track the historical changes in pull request statuses via icons next to commits. Developers interested in setting up custom statuses can refer to the Status API documentation and a guide for building personal CI services. Additionally, several services utilize the Status API to help maintain clean code, verify test success, and ensure contributor agreement to Contributor License Agreements (CLAs).