Random Team Reviewer

Version updated for https://github.com/TestmyTools/random-pick-team-reviewer to version v1.

  • This action is used across all versions by ? repositories.

Action Type

This is a Node action using Node version 20.

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Action Summary

The “Random Team Reviewer GitHub Action” automates the process of assigning a reviewer to a pull request by randomly selecting a member from a specified GitHub team while excluding the pull request author. It streamlines team-based code review workflows by eliminating manual reviewer selection and ensuring unbiased assignments. This action leverages GitHub API endpoints to fetch team members and request reviews directly.

What’s Changed

🚀 Release v1 Highlights

🔗 Full Changelog

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✨ Features

  • Automatically assigns a random reviewer from a specified GitHub team
  • Excludes the pull request author from the reviewer selection

🛠 Improvements

Debugging & Reliability

  • Added clearer error messages when API calls fail
    • (e.g., team member listing, reviewer assignment)
  • Introduced a PR preflight check (pulls.get)
    • Helps surface 404-style issues with:
      • repository owner
      • repo name
      • pull request number
  • Improved logging when no eligible reviewers are found
    • (e.g., when the PR author is the only team member)

⚙️ Usage

Required Inputs

  • github-token
  • org
  • team-slug

Trigger

  • Works with:
    • pull_request
    • pull_request_target

Ensures pull request context is available for reviewer assignment