The CodeStream Blog

What was the worst piece of business advice that you received? That a "great idea" is all you need to be successful as an entrepreneur. The truth is that a great idea gets you 5% of the way there. The other 95% is execution, manifested by wanting it more and working harder than your competitors.

The new “Tasks” tab in the CodeStream navigation gives you quick access to everything on your plate. There you can initiate work on any item and keep the team informed of your progress. Note also that there is a new “+” button on the bottom right of the tab, giving access to the functions that used to be on the global navigation in a faster and more intuitive way. There are three main sections on this tab.

As you know from our release updates, for most of 2020 we’ve been hard at work building in-IDE code review functionality and we recently added the most requested feature to-date, a code review integration with PR workflows. By “closing the loop” on the typical workflow, CodeStream can now serve as a complete code review solution for most development teams and we’re marking the milestone by launching CodeStream Code Review on Product Hunt today.

With version 8.0 CodeStream simplifies a developer’s end-to-end workflow, starting with the creation of a feature branch, through code discussion and code review, and culminating with the creation of a pull request. All without the developer ever having to leave their IDE.

CodeStream's code review and discussion tools are already deployed on-premises in many organizations around the world. Over the past several months we have collected our learnings and simplified the deployment process significantly.

You signed up, added a teammate or two to kick the tires with, and are off to the collaboration races! Awesome. But what about the rest of the team? You can certainly head over to the Team tab and add them all, but CodeStream now also makes sure that the right people are brought into your discussions… even if they aren’t yet on CodeStream. When you create a codemark, CodeStream automatically mentions the person that most recently touched that code. But what if that person isn’t on CodeStream? With the check of a box, you can now send your comment via email.They can simply reply to the email to have their comment posted to CodeStream, and of course they can install CodeStream to participate from their IDE.