How automatically add a reviewer from a team when a PR is created?

[Tom-Boscher]

Hello everyone!

We recently move from Gitlab to GitHub and I struggle with a automatic reviewer assignment.
My goal is to automatically add a team QA to the reviewers when a PR is created and to only be able to merge the PR if one of the QA reviewer has validated the review.

Thanks in advance!

[spenserblack]

It sounds like a CODEOWNERS file is what you need for automatic reviewer assignments 🙂

You can add a branch protection rule to require reviews before merging.

[joeythomaschaske]

I want to separate the "team" from the "owner" so that I can require approval from the "owner" when the "team" submit pull requests.

Team members can review PRs, but I want final approval to come from the "Owner"

[Tom-Boscher]

Thank you @spenserblack for your answer! It seems indeed to be the solution for my issue.
Is it possible to assign the team only when a PR is reviewed?

[spenserblack]

Is it possible to assign the team only when a PR is reviewed?

🤔 If I'm understanding correctly, you want to assign a team to review after the PR has been reviewed, like a 2-stage review process? If so, you can trigger a workflow on approval, then use the GitHub CLI (gh pr edit --add-reviewer foo).

[Tom-Boscher]

Thank you, I will try this way so!

[spenserblack]

I happened to stumble on this action, which may interest you.

[Tom-Boscher]

Oh indeed, thank you!

[jeganila]

I have the githup/CODEOWNERS with below content but when i create pull request , it is not assigning the default reviewers .
branch rule is setup already

# Each line is a file pattern followed by one or more owners.
# These owners will be the default owners for everything in
# the repo. Unless a later match takes precedence,
* @it-devops/it-devops

[spenserblack]

For organization teams the format should be @org/team. See https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-code-owners#codeowners-syntax

Are you using a self-hosted GitHub instance? Because when I look up @it-devops, I find a user instead of an organization.