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+layout:     post
+title:      Sixteenth monthly bors newsletter
+date:       2018-05-01 00:00:00
+summary:    This April, we added restricted retry and custom committer support
+categories: newsletter
+---
+
+It's another monthly burst of news about bors-ng:
+
+>  * A continuous integration bot.
+>  * Awaits reviewer approval on PRs, builds them as though they were merged, only merges on green.
+>  * Updates PR with merge status.
+
+— [as described by CockroachDB's maintainers](https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach/issues/22499)
+
+In the [last month](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr%20is%3Aclosed%20closed%3A2018-04-01..2018-04-30),
+we landed 17 PRs in the bors-ng repository.
+
+"This Month in Bors" is written in public on GitHub.
+If you find a mistake, [pull requests] or [issue reports] are appreciated!
+
+[pull requests]: https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng.github.io/pulls
+[issue reports]: https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng.github.io/issues
+
+
+### Notable Additions
+
+* couchand [added](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/392) co-author trailers to bors's merge commits
+* couchand [fixed](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/393) the different orderings between the merge commits' parents and the merge commit messages
+* couchand [made](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/394) the History tab sort better
+* couchand [made](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/395) the Settings tab sort better
+* couchand [added](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/396) a config option for setting a custom committer name and email
+* notriddle [fixed](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/401) the cleanup routine to delete old crash reports
+* notriddle [added](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/402) the `bors retry` command
+* notriddle [fixed](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/404) a crashing bug related to merge conflicts
+* notriddle [allowed](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/407) non-reviewer members to view the project dashboard pages
+* notriddle [added](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/411) a UI for syncing the reviewers list with GitHub's contributors list
+
+### New Contributors
+
+No new contributors this month 😥
+
+Want to see your name in this newsletter? Look at [bors starters](https://bors.tech/starters/), a curated list of issues that are good for new contributors!
+
+
+### Who's using bors?
+
+This month's featured user is [Fusion Dealership Systems](https://github.com/fusionapp), who write software used by car dealerships out of South Africa. They've open sourced pretty much everything they develop that isn't directly related to selling cars, like their [search indexing microservice](https://github.com/fusionapp/fusion-index), [blob store microservice](https://github.com/fusionapp/entropy), and many [upstream contributions](https://github.com/twisted/txacme) to [Twisted Python](https://github.com/twisted/twisted/commits?author=mithrandi).
+
+One of their employees, [mithrandi](https://github.com/mithrandi), helped us get a good, official Docker image for bors-ng [that works in the same infrastructure](https://gitter.im/bors-ng/Lobby?at=5a16c073540c78242d3c8433) that they run all their other stuff in. Thanks for being an early adopter and helping find all the kinks in our deploy story, Fusion!
+
+Got any suggestions for next month?
+Post a comment on the [May pull request](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng.github.io/pull/44).