How to Send GitHub Pull-Request Review Notifications
Route ready-for-review, changes-requested, approved, and merged events into the room owned by the right engineering team.
Connect a repository workflow or webhook consumer to a PingRoom incoming webhook, then notify only on review states that change someone’s next action: Ready for review, Changes requested, Approved, and Merged.
Route by ownership
Send the event to the room responsible for the repository or component, not a company-wide engineering channel. Include the repository, pull-request number, author, and a safe link. The label should make the expected action obvious: Review requested — mobile #418 is stronger than PR updated.
Use the pull-request node ID or repository-and-number pair as a correlation identifier. Deduplicate webhook redeliveries, and do not alert on every synchronize event unless the team has explicitly chosen that workflow.
Store the PingRoom webhook URL in the repository or organization secret store. Verify incoming events in your integration before forwarding them; possession of the PingRoom URL does not prove the upstream event came from GitHub.
Keep code and credentials out of previews
Do not send diffs, private issue text, commit secrets, access tokens, or confidential customer information in a lock-screen notification. Link authorized team members back to the repository, where normal access control applies.
PingRoom does not replace required-review rules, merge protection, repository history, or the code host’s audit log. It makes the moment of responsibility visible. For a broader pipeline pattern, see CI/CD deployment notifications and webhook setup.
PingRoom
The Ping that cuts through.
