You may have seen a new member of the team sending Pull Requests to your VIP Go repository recently — wpcomvip-bot. To start, wpcomvip-bot has been sending Pull Requests for plugin updates. Over the coming weeks and months, expect to see more PRs like this.
Remaining consistent with standard VIP practice, PRs will not be merged on your behalf unless they contain critical security fixes or resolve an existing or potential site outage. It’s best practice to update plugins in a timely manner, but we also encourage you to merge the code into development environments and test there before deploying to production.
Over the next few weeks, wpcomvip-bot will start doing initial code reviews as well. Pull Requests to VIP Go sites will be immediately sent to wpcomvip-bot to ensure there are no syntax errors before passing the review to a human code reviewer. Over time, the scope of initial reviews by wpcomvip-bot will expand, providing feedback about blockers and highlighting potential problems to help get useful feedback about new code as soon as possible.
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