How would you do to forbid the author as reviewer?

[barnou-psee]

Hi, I'm using mergify to setup a list of rules to automatically add review request. I would like to add review request but not the author.
Like

pull_request_rules:
  - name: Assign reviewers on Python files
    conditions:
      - files~=\.py$
    actions:
      request_reviews:
        - foo
        - bar
        - baz
        - qux   

But the PR author is bar, how to do you tell mergify that bar cannot review this PR? Is it automatically handled by mergify?

[DouglasBlackwood]

Hi.
I don't know if there is a way to do this. What we do at Mergify is request a review from a team, like this:

  - name: request review
    conditions:
      - -author=mergify-ci-bot
      - -merged
      - -closed
      - ...
      - "#approved-reviews-by=0"
      - "#changes-requested-reviews-by=0"
      - "review-requested!=@devs"
    actions:
      request_reviews:
        teams:
          - devs

This allows requesting reviews from the dev team on opened pull requests not yet approved.

There may be another way with template strings. Each condition is a template string where you can use pull request properties, like {{author}}, or statements like loops or conditions. But I'm not sure you can carry out what you want.

Hope this helps

[barnou-psee]

Thank you for you answer. I wanted to avoid teams since it might create a lot of different teams in github. Maybe I can have some filtering with mergify to avoid as you said with {{author}} I'll have to try that.