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+layout:     post
+title:      Sixth monthly bors newsletter
+date:       2017-07-01 00:00:00
+summary:    What happened with bors in the month of June
+categories: newsletter
+---
+
+It's another monthly burst of news about bors,
+the GitHub App that tests your code before it becomes the master.
+
+In the [last month](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pulls?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=is%3Apr%20is%3Aclosed%20closed%3A2017-06-01..2017-06-30),
+we landed 6 PRs in the bors-ng repository.
+
+
+### Notable Additions
+
+* notriddle [opened](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/203) up a read-only view of the build queue
+* notriddle [improved](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/211) permission errors
+* notriddle [added](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/210) a configuration option to strip PR template boilerplate
+* notriddle [changed](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/214) the command parser to operate line-by-line, allowing multiple commands in a single comment and disallowing commands in the middle of lines
+* notriddle [added](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng/pull/218) the "delegate" command, allowing reviewers to give other people permission to review a particular pull request
+
+
+### New Contributors
+
+No new contributors this month. 😐
+
+Want to see your name in this newsletter? Look at [bors starters](https://bors-ng.github.io/starters/), a curated list of issues that are good for new contributors!
+
+
+### Who's using bors?
+
+[nix-rust/nix], not to be confused with the package manager called Nix, is a Rust library that provides memory-safe bindings to OS facilities that are specific to UNIX-like OS's (like macOS and Linux), without imposing runtime overhead on top of the libc-provided interface.
+
+Their Travis CI build matrix [has 18 configurations and has a total time around an hour][example travis build]: Linux on several different architectures, Mac OS X ("darwin"), and smoke tests for cross-compiling from Linux to FreeBSD and NetBSD. A Nix developer also runs [an instance of BuildBot][example buildbot build], which they use to actually run the test suite on FreeBSD. You can see how they configure bors-ng to work with this in their [bors.toml] file.
+
+[nix-rust/nix]: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix
+[example travis build]: https://travis-ci.org/nix-rust/nix/builds/244755650
+[example buildbot build]: https://alan.ci/buildbot/#/builders/5/builds/69
+[bors.toml]: https://github.com/nix-rust/nix/blob/274b09e/bors.toml
+
+Got any suggestions for next month?
+Post a comment on the [July pull request](https://github.com/bors-ng/bors-ng.github.io/pull/12).