PR Focus is a macOS app to keep tabs on all the important PRs across repositories you watch. Developed by @dachary
Here's a sneak peek of what's coming in the next PR Focus release: a dashboard where you can focus on just your own work! This dashboard shows your PRs, and PRs where you're an assignee or a reviewer.
There's a setting to make this the default view if you don't care about watching or ignoring PRs (instead of "All Pull Requests”).
This is almost ready - just a little more UI cleanup to do - but I'm rolling in another feature to improve developer workflows… I think you're gonna love it!
PR Focus is happy to sponsor Hacking with Swift this week! Paul Hudson has been providing helpful articles, books, workshops, courses, and newsletters for the Swift development community for years. As a solo indie developer, I have found his content so valuable to figure out new techniques and new APIs.
If you haven’t checked out what he’s been up to lately, you should! And if you’re not a member of his newsletter, you’re missing out.
PR Focus v1.1.0 is live, bringing you two new requested features and some new accessibility settings 🎉:
- Tag PRs: Track important activity across feature development, bugfixes, or a specific project - even across repos.
- Automatically Watch, Ignore, or Tag PRs with user-defined filters
- New accessibility settings to display text instead of glyphs for some status fields
For more details, including links to the docs for these new features, check out the announcement: https://prfocus.app/news/2024/08/12/introducing-tags-and-filtering-in-pr-focus/
PR Focus is happy to sponsor SwiftLee this week! Antoine has been writing helpful articles about Swift development for many years, and his newsletters and courses help Swift developers like yours truly learn about new techniques and advances in Swift and SwiftUI.
Hopefully, the other devs who follow SwiftLee will find PR Focus helpful, too!
If you’re a Swift developer and haven’t looked at his content lately, check out what Antoine has been writing about:
PR Focus v1.0 is live on the Mac App Store! 🎉
Thanks for all the feedback, beta testers! I can't wait to dig into some of the new feature requests I've gotten.
If you have ever wanted to know the status of a pull request - or a bunch of pull requests - without having to go to GitHub to check on them, give PR Focus a try!
I and a small group of private beta testers have been running this build for a bit, and everything seems to be working well, so I’ve just released the final release candidate for the 1.0 launch to the public beta group!
Really excited to launch 1.0 🚀
I already have a bunch of roadmap items lined up for after the release that I’m eager to get started with. But I’ve gotta get 1.0 out first!
As always, I really appreciate any feedback, bug reports, or feature requests! 🙏🏻
Just submitted the final RC build to App Review! This build adds some much-needed styling to the onboarding process.
I'm just one person with no design experience, and this is my first macOS app, which really showed in the onboarding. Some views hadn't been touched in a year or more since I started building. Really happy with the "After" shots here!
Spouse just launched 1.0 of an open-source self-hosted bookmark manager! If you’re here on the Fediverse, chances are good that you recognize the benefits of portability and owning your own infrastructure for critical services. If your bookmarks are critical, check it out!
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Just released v0.10 - which I'm calling the 1.0 release candidate - to the public beta group! You can now enjoy paging through PR details without having to go back to the dashboards, some improved navigation and UX, and a handful of bug fixes.
Release notes are available on the website, along with updated docs: https://prfocus.app/docs/release-notes/#v010-build-1
Lots of small improvements in the next build!
- Adds the ability to page through PR details for all the PRs in a given list, instead of requiring you to go back to the dashboard.
- Breaks up App Settings and Repo Settings into discrete chunks, and sets the stage for new setting options.
- Bugfixes and a few small UI tweaks.
The build is currently pending App Review. I'm calling it a 1.0 release candidate. I'm planning some small onboarding improvements but saving net new features for post 1.0!
Thanks for all the feature requests and bug reports, public beta folks! I’ll push out a new build this weekend that closes the current bug reports, and I got a couple of awesome feature requests to work on post-1.0 launch: Tag and Filter PRs, coming soon!
Meanwhile, if you haven’t gotten in on the public beta yet, I’d love to have you join!
Current status:
Annoyed, because @dachary 's @prfocus app has made me see some REALLY old PRs against my open source repos that I was unaware of AND forced me to acknowledge that I really need to deal with them.
*/me grumbles about "stupid" useful tools that make me do things I should have done ages ago*
And I've added two new pages to the website to provide more information about:
- What PR Focus Does: https://prfocus.app/what-it-does/
- Who PR Focus is For: https://prfocus.app/who-its-for/
If you think you might find it useful, I would welcome your feedback!
IT'S HERE! The PR Focus public beta is finally open. If you:
- Are a #developer who makes or reviews PRs, or is assigned work in GitHub
- Are a #DocsAsCode technical writer who makes or reviews PRs, or is assigned work in GitHub
- Are a #TechnicalWriter, team lead, project manager, or work at an agency or consulting firm where you need to keep track of PRs across repos as the source of truth for your work
PR Focus might be helpful to you!
Join the TestFlight here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/PmdjrF6U
And final app preview, since Apple allows three.
PR Focus lets you watch repositories and see all the open PRs that come in, meaning you never miss important PRs. If you're a Reviewer, Assignee, or the PR is your own, the app automatically sorts them into the right lists.
And new in the final feature for the upcoming v1.0 launch - you can also watch individual PRs without watching every open PR in a repo.
Time for another App Preview!
Learn more about how PR Focus makes it easy to find out what's new and updated in pull requests you care about.
Prepping for launch, and that means it's time to make some App Previews!
First up: Watch and Ignore PRs!
PR Focus has just released its final (planned) private beta release! 🎉
We'll run this for a week or so, make sure the private beta group doesn't spot any new bugs, and then open up the beta to the public!
Stay tuned if you'd like to be part of the public beta!
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Slowly plugging away on releases. Getting close to a public beta! I've got one more planned release before the public beta.
From today's release, things I'm particularly excited about
- You can now multi-select and bulk Ignore or Watch PRs. Good if you're watching an active repo or haven't booted the app for a while.
- You can now manually fetch PRs for a specific repo. Good for a quick check if you've otherwise got a lot of busy repos and fetching takes a while.
