Wiplock - Protect main branch from in-progress branches

TL;DR

I released Wiplock that protects main branch from pull requests that contains WIP in the title or incompleted tasks.

Wiplock is an OSS built with Go and React + Redux. Please take a look if you’re interested in.

Motivation

In our daily development flow, we send WIP pull requests on GitHub before implementation was done.

Sometimes we mistakenly merge these pull requests before the tasks are completed or forget removing WIP in the title that may confuse collaborators.

To prevent these kind of mis-operations, I’ve built an tiny web application called Wiplock.

How it works

After visiting Wiplock, you’ll see the black Sign in with GitHub button.

Hit it and Authorize this app on the next screen.

Make sure that organizations are granted that you want introducing Wiplock.

2. Find repository and turn the switch on

After you signed in with GitHub, your repositories will be listed in Wiplock.

Find repositories to introduce and turn the switch on.

3. Check that works

Go to your repository and edit or create pull request to contain WIP in the title.

Once you edit the title, Pull Request status would become Pending.

4. Turn on protect branch

Go to Settings > Branches of your repo, turn Require branches to be up to date before merging checkbox on.

Launch your own Wiplock

If you won’t like to give permission to applications managed by someone else, you can launch your own Wiplock on Heroku or Docker hosts.

Pre-requirements

You need to create your OAuth Application on GitHub.

https://github.com/settings/applications/new

Heroku

Just hit the Heroku Button on README of the repository.

https://github.com/ngs/wiplock#heroku

Docker

Redis server is required to launch on your host.

If you don’t have it yet, the Official Docker image will help you bootstrapping.

docker pull redis
docker run --name wiplock-redis -d redis

Pull Wiplock Docker image.

docker pull atsnngs/wiplock

And run Wiplock by passing REDIS_URL with running container name.

docker run --name wiplock -p 8000:8000 -d --rm \
  --link wiplock-redis:redis \
  -e GITHUB_CLIENT_ID=${GITHUB_CLIENT_ID} \
  -e GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET=${GITHUB_CLIENT_SECRET} \
  -e SECRET=${SECRET} \
  -e REDIS_URL="redis://redis:6379" \
  atsnngs/wiplock

Then you can see your Wiplock on your localhost.

http://localhost:8000

Milestones

Support locking pull requests labeled in progress
Support customizing locking conditions using .wiplock.yml on the repository root

I wish this could help your workflow safe, happy locking!