If any committer wants to send a PR nominating themselves as code
owner, I'll stamp it. But for myself I don't want to get notified on
every PR in every repo.

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 8:23 PM Erik Meuwese via dev
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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> Verzonden: woensdag 14 januari 2026 18:03
> Aan: Maven Developers List <[email protected]>
> 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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