🤖 Review Flow Bot

Automates and streamlines the code review process for GitLab projects via Telegram.

🚀 Key Features

• Automated Reviewer Assignment: Smart assignment based on team membership and project context
• Flexible Review Requests: Support for both automatic and manual reviewer assignment
• Review Progress Tracking: Monitor pending, approved, and rejected reviews
• Status Change Detection: Automatically detects and notifies on review status changes
• Team Organization: Organize users into teams with different roles (members, reviewers)
• Authentication: Users authenticate with GitLab using /login <gitlab_token> with read_user permission

Installation

From Releases

1. Download the latest release for your platform
2. Extract the binary to your desired location
3. Make the binary executable:

   chmod +x review-flow-bot

Go Install (dev only)

go install github.com/chaindead/review-flow-bot/cmd/review-flow-bot@latest

# check installation
review-flow-bot --version

Getting Started

Use --help flag to see all availible flags

1. Create a Telegram bot via @BotFather
2. Obtain a GitLab personal access token with read_api scope
3. Configure environment variables with help of review-flow-bot --envs
4. Start the bot with review-flow-bot

Usage

Use /help command in bot to see all available commands

• Users can authenticate using /login <gitlab_token> with read_user scope.
• Admins can assign users to teams using /assign @username team_name
• Team members can request reviews using /review <mr_url>
• Bot monitors active merge requests and
  • will notify the interested user if there are changes in the review status
  • allows user to view the status of your reviews via /my