I built this because I was tired of my PM (and people complaining about their PM) asking “Is this in testing yet?” or “Any update on ticket XYZ?” every time I pushed code.
So I wired up a GitHub Action that automatically pings them whenever a ticket in Jira/Linear hits testing, or a build completes, so they don’t DM me, and I don’t need to pretend I didn’t see it until the next day (sometimes longer).
It’s tiny, installable in under a minute, and surprisingly effective at keeping everyone sane on my team.
GitHub Action: https://github.com/marketplace/actions/pm-updater
Main repo: https://github.com/peculiarism/eng-pm-mediator
What it does:
– Trigger on a push to a specific branch or main.
– Automatically notifies your PM via Slack (more integrations coming soon – should we support WhatsApp? iMessage? God that would be so annoying)
– Includes branch name, ticket reference in Linear or Jira, and build status
– Passive aggressive messages optional
It started as a joke that I built over an evening, but now some friends are using it so I thought I’d turn it into a public repo for others to benefit.
Would love feedback, PRs or feature requests. Maybe next version should reverse-notify engineers when PMs miss their deadlines.
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