Default reviewers in BitBucket Cloud not working at all?

Question

We've defined a set of default reviewers in our BitBucket Cloud repository.

However, it seems to have zero effect. Any time we create a PR from a fork, the list of reviewers is always empty and the list of default reviewers does not seem to get applied at all.

is this a bug or is there something else that needs to be set up?

Bitwise DEVS · Answer

Did you find any solution on this? Its 2022 and I think default reviewer still not working. Thanks

Russell Harrison · Answer

I also find this confusing and frustrating. The pull request is being created in the repository being merged into and not the fork. Why wouldn't default reviewers have an effect?

Adding to the issue I can't add default reviewers to my private fork unless I give access to the fork to all of the reviewers who already have access to the main repository. Effectively each user can only add themselves as a reviewer which is rather silly.

I can however add the users manually every time I create the pull request but the entire point of having default reviewers in the first place is to remove the need for doing this.

Jacek Furmankiewicz_el2yeq · Answer

That is unexpeced...BitBucket on-prem does this *properly* (i.e. as expected).

This is clearly a bug in how BitBucket Cloud handles it vs. the on-prem server version.

Is there an ETA to fix this?

This makes it very hard to ensure quality and proper code reviews, especially if dealing with remote teams.