How can I allow adding myself as a pull request reviewer?

Question

It seems to be prevented by default for clear reasons, but we require this for what I believe to be a common scenario:

* All code needs to be reviewed by someone else than the author
* More than one person can commit to a branch/PR
* If two people author code to a branch, it should be enough for those same two people to review/approve the PR. This way all code is reviewed by at least one person other than the author.

Enabling a workflow described above requires two things from Stash:

* Set minimum required amount of approvers for the repoitory to 2 persons (already works!)
* Allow the creator of the PR to be added as a reviewer (currently prevented by Stash)

The "downside" would be that the author of a PR would always need to approve the branch, despite the branch containing commits from a single author. This is really just a minor annoyance, though, as it solves a much bigger problem.

Derrick Slopey · Answer

See also: https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Bitbucket-questions/Is-it-possible-for-pull-request-author-to-be-also-a-reviewer/qaq-p/228857#U1257597

unknown · Answer

I agree that this the pull request system should be workflow-agnostic.  I am in a similar situation where MANY people have contributed on a branch, so now we want everyone to review the branch holistically before it is merged back to the main branch.  Having Bitbucket try to guess how others will design their workflow for their needs is highly problematic.  It isn't for Bitbucket or Atlassian to decide what is appropriate.

In short, the person who submits the PR is not necessarily the person that authored the code!

Harry Flink_gzaj5i · Answer

I'm having hard time with Pull Request created by me not allowing to set me as a reviewer.

An employee of mine screwed up a branch for a small feature, so I created another one and cherry-picked the proper commits.

I declined the pull request from the previous branch and now I want to create a new pull request with me as the reviewer and hoping to edit the original implementor to be owner of the pull request. Too bad if this is not possible because now I have to message him and manage it tomorrow.

I don't see any point limiting functionality of the Bitbucket artificially like this, it just doesn't make any sense.