Assign reviewer to GitHub pull requests

[ubuntudroid]

Is your feature request related to a problem? If so, please describe.

When weblate creates pull requests in GitHub on the source repository they are not assigned to anyone. In our internal flow all pull requests need to be assigned to a reviewer - all our tooling relies heavily on this.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be great if one could define a default reviewer in the version control settings in weblate.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I tried using GitHub actions like this one to auto-assign reviewers, but it doesn't work on PRs created by weblate - likely because the PR is created via some kind of API and not via the "regular GitHub UI flow"?

[github-actions]

This issue has been added to the backlog. It is not scheduled on the Weblate roadmap, but it eventually might be implemented.

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[nijel]

The pull request is indeed created via API, but still, it should trigger pull_request.opened event.

[ubuntudroid]

Yeah, I honestly have no idea why it behaves differently than all our other pull requests... actually the only difference is that it comes from a fork while our other pull requests (where the assign-revierers-action works flawlessly) don't. 🤔

[nijel]

In that case, I guess it's because of secrets - the pull requests don't get access to GitHub secrets and thus can not auto-assign.

You can let Weblate push directly to your repo as well, just set push branch in component configuration. See https://docs.weblate.org/en/latest/admin/continuous.html#pushing-changes-from-weblate for more details.

[ubuntudroid]

That worked! For everyone interested: This is the GitHub action I ended up using.

[github-actions]

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