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Feature Highlight: WIP

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Company
Date Published
Author
Job van der Voort
Word Count
288
Company Posts That Month
7
Language
English
Hacker News Points
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No
Summary

At GitLab, the practice of creating Work In Progress (WIP) merge requests is encouraged to manage complex features that require extensive development time. By marking a merge request as WIP, developers can benefit from code review and GitLab CI's code checks without the risk of prematurely merging incomplete work. This approach leverages the open-source community's strength in providing early feedback, allowing developers to catch potential mistakes and receive guidance throughout the development process. GitLab promotes a culture of early sharing and decision-making to foster automatic collaboration and improve project outcomes, exemplified by their use of WIP merge requests for major projects like the Elastic Search implementation.

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