I cannot add reviewers to my pull request.

The committers could add a CODEOWNERS file to the .github directory with the 
current reviewers. GitHub would then automatically request those code owners to 
review any pull request that modifies code that they own. Could that be a 
solution?

Kind regards,
Erik Meuwese

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Van: Giovanni van der Schelde <[email protected]>
Verzonden: woensdag 14 januari 2026 18:03
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Onderwerp: Re: Request review for several pending PRs

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I don’t think you can request reviewers, only re-request once a review is
done. I have a couple of open PRs myself, what I tend to do is mention/ping
committers and hope for a response. Most of the time you get one but it is
difficult to keep track I can imagine. But you would have to know who to
ping, who is actively watching, who knows most about a plug-in, etc. I
personally don’t want to keep pinging as it feels a bit rude/impatient to
me.

It would be nice if we can figure out a workflow for this to improve
contributions from non-commiters that works for both sides. I currently
think it’s easier to start due to the move to GitHub but requires some
thoughts on making it smoother to review and merge.

WDYT?

Regards,

Giovanni van der Schelde


On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 at 19:44, Elliotte Rusty Harold <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Not sure, but do you have the option as a non-committer to request a
> reviewer on the PR? Usually without that they won't get noticed, but
> I'm. not sure if non-committers can do that
>
> On Tue, Jan 13, 2026 at 9:01 AM Anukalp Pandey <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Maven Team,
> >
> > I hope everyone is doing well.
> >
> > I have opened several PRs across Maven projects that have been idle for
> 2–3
> > weeks. Most are small / documentation-only / low-risk improvements.
> >
> > If someone could kindly approve workflows and review when possible I
> would
> > really appreciate it.
> >
> > Here are the PR links:
> >
> > 1) Maven : https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/11576
> > 2) Maven : https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/11579
> > 3) Maven : https://github.com/apache/maven/pull/11584
> > 2) Maven SCM: https://github.com/apache/maven-scm/pull/1350
> > 3) Maven SCM: https://github.com/apache/maven-scm/pull/1352
> >
> > Thank you very much for your time and all the work you do.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Anukalp Pandey
> > GitHub: anukalp2804
>
>
>
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