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Cool of reviewers on pull requests #1942
Description
Problem
A lot of excited reviewers trying to chip in as much and fast as possible. Resulting in millisecond assignments. Great! But also leaving people to mis the (micro small) assignment window each time.
Proposal
Add a GitHub Action that:
- Checks if reviewers have met the Hacktober threshold and a threshold for the day (let's say 2 for each repository).
- Prevent them to assign or be assigned to for the first hour(?) of the PR being open within that repo.
Goal
Allow other reviewers to assign and review.
Activity
Pratham7249 commentedon Oct 8, 2025
@WillemZeiler Hello! I'd love to contribute and work on this issue for Hacktoberfest.
After reviewing the details, my initial plan is to [Briefly describe your approach, e.g., "create a new GitHub Action workflow file in .github/workflows/ that triggers on pull_request events and uses a script to check the author's recent activity via the GitHub API."]
This approach seems to align with the proposal's goal of creating a fairer review process. Could you please assign this to me?
SapphicFire commentedon Oct 12, 2025
Hi @Pratham7249 - I appreciate your eagerness. However, we are not yet ready for this issue to be actioned, as further discussion around this feature should be held
SapphicFire commentedon Oct 12, 2025
@WillemZeiler Could you please walk me through what you mean by Hacktober threshold? Maintainer actions aren't really rewarded by DigitalOcean, so I'm trying to get my head around this. I do appreciate your concern though, this is just a part I'm hoping to understand better.
WillemZeiler commentedon Oct 12, 2025
@SapphicFire I am referring to this:
https://github.com/ServiceNowDevProgram/Hacktoberfest
Allowing people to get to that point and then prevent them from assigning multiple to themselves at once will give others a better opportunity to also join in. I would prefer even blocking people to assign multiple to themselves in a short period while their other PR's are still open, but that is a bit more strickt.