Lots of improvements to Airlock
10 March 2025
We’ve recently spent some time improving Airlock, based on feedback from users after a few months of active use.
You can see the full list of changes we’ve made (over 80 pull requests!) here. Some highlights, in no particular order:
- Output checkers can now return a request early without having to do two independent reviews.
- Co-pilots now have access to see files in all the workspaces that they are helping with.
- We show users’ full names rather than their GitHub handles.
- Researchers can now move files between groups and change file types.
- We’ve added extra metadata to give more context about release requests.
- We’ve added several guide rails for researchers and output checkers to make it easier to know what you’re expected to do next.
- Researchers are now required to provide comments to explain how they have addressed feedback when resubmitting a request.
- All users can use markdown to add formatting to their comments.
- We’ve added row numbers and sticky headers to tables of data.
- We’ve made the infrastructure for releasing files more resilient to things like network failures.