In this post @Nick-Hall mentioned labels like ‘Needs testing’. Using labels is a really nice way for anyone wanting to help to quickly scan PRs and pick issues to contribute their time to. As a code contributor, I would like to be able to add a label ‘Needs testing’ to a PR I created because it’s b…

[image] codefarmer: Using labels is a really nice way for anyone wanting to help to quickly scan PRs and pick issues to contribute their time to. We can create some new labels if they would be helpful. At the moment “Needs testing” is defined as “A pull request that has been approved but nee…

[image] codefarmer: it would be great if reviewers could be requested for GitHub PRs based on previous authors of the code. I think github has the feature to request a code review from a selected person.

There’s been good response here when asking for Mac & Linux testing to compliment my test on Windoze.

[image] Nick-Hall: Users need to be granted the “Triage” role to be able to add and remove them. That’s the missing piece. As @Mattkmmr said, labels and reviewers are a long standing GitHub feature but I wasn’t able to set a label or ask for a review because of the missing Triage role. May I …

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Mattkmmr October 19, 2022, 7:28am 2

I think github has the feature to request a code review from a selected person.

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