CODEOWNERS Pull Request Reviews - Random or Balanced?

[will-malisch]

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I have a several repos that get automatically reviewed by our 1 list of codeowners (people on my team). It seems like the automatic process that assigns reviewers from the codeowners file is not perfectly random. It seems like there certain repo and files that typically erequest review from SME's on these repos and files.

So, does the automatic review on PR's have some sort of algorithm? Is it perfectly random? Or is it perfectly random with a balancing factor?

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[CharlieGroves]

@will-malisch I built a small open-source extension that shows each person's open review-request count in the Reviewers menu: https://github.com/CharlieGroves/review-load - you might find it useful!