Connect GitHub and Windmill to power smarter performance reviews
What is GitHub?
GitHub is a code hosting platform for version control and collaboration. It’s where engineering teams store code, track issues, review pull requests, and manage software development workflows—making it the central hub for modern software development.
How Windmill Uses Your GitHub Integration
Windmill connects to GitHub to understand engineering work and contributions without requiring manual status updates. This integration powers several key Windmill features:
- 1:1 agenda generation by pulling recent PRs, commits, and code reviews to show what engineers have been working on
- Performance review context from code contributions, reviews, and collaboration patterns over time
- Engineering activity tracking to surface accomplishments and development areas based on actual code work
- Issue and code-review context showing ownership, feedback, and follow-through
Windmill reads repository activity, pull requests, issues, commits, and code reviews from the repositories or organizations you select to provide engineering-work context.
Benefits of the Windmill GitHub Integration
Preserve engineering contributions. Pull requests, commits, issues, and code reviews are captured as they happen instead of being reconstructed months later.
Context-rich 1:1s with less prep. Managers can use recent PRs, commits, issues, and code reviews as concrete discussion context.
Broader performance context. Reviews can recognize both shipped code and behind-the-scenes work such as review comments, approvals, and issue follow-through.
Repository-level control. You choose which repositories or organizations are included, and the connection remains read-only.