Only a few people have permission to update the 'Reviewers' section and I believe you either have to be a project PMC member or committer to be able to update it which is why all people should use "R: @GITHUB-USERNAME" as specified in the contribution guide[1].
1: https://beam.apache.org/contribute/#make-your-change On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 11:00 PM Bruce Arctor <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dev, > > Today at Beam Summit, in Contributing workshop, Robert suggested adding > reviewer by assigning someone to 'Reviewers' to the section on the right > (where labels, assignees, milestones, etc live). This was not possible > without some additional permissions, but it is not clear what that > requires? Is it somehow joining the Apache Org on GitHub, having > contributor permissions, etc? > > The other suggestion was to include "R: @GITHUB-USERNAME". to mark/notify > people. Which does work. But would be interested in understanding the > practices for assigning reviewers in the method mentioned above. > > Please advise; this was also written on list, so that this knowledge can > be findable/referenced in the future. > > Thanks, > Austin > >
