Enforcing Code Owners in Bitbucket

Tural Nasirov

Hello,

I have added .bitbucket/CODEOWNERS file to my repo with following content:

file1.yaml reviewer1@example.com
/folder/file2.yaml reviewer2@example.com

 

When a user creates a pull request, the specified reviewers are automatically added. However, the user creating the PR can still remove the auto-assigned reviewers, add another reviewer, get approval, and then merge the PR.

 

We want to enforce that changes to the above files must be reviewed by the specific users listed in the CODEOWNERS file. For other files, any reviewer with access can approve and merge the changes.

 

Could you please advise how we can enforce these specific review requirements in Bitbucket?

 

Thanks in advance for your help!

Ulrich Kuhnhardt _IzymesCo_

Hello Tural,

I understand that you want to enforce a set of reviewers and their approvals as per your codeowners configuration.

Merge-checks are enforced with a Bitbucket Premium with $3(base) + $3(premium) per workspace user per month.

There are a few alternative apps on the Atlassian Marketplace for BB Cloud, that do exactly what you need.

One of them Workzone for BB Cloud (which we created for enterprise level BB Cloud users) enforces the reviewer set and also the approval quota.

If your developer Johnny removes reviewers from a PR to 'fast-track' the merge, Workzone will add reviewers back in automatically. Workzone also blocks the PR from being merged, if the required approvals from individual reviewers or groups are missing. And, the best news is that Workzone is available at $0.5 per user per month for workspaces > 5 users and free for small teams.

Cheers and happy coding

Ulrich

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