reviewersSampleSize has no effect if bbUseDefaultReviewers=true?

[ablekhman]

We're using hosted instance of Renovate bot to scan repositories on Bitbucket Cloud.

Some repositories have rather long list of default reviewers. When developers create their PRs, they remove some of the default reviewers and leave only relevant ones.

We tried to limit the number of reviewers for Renovate PRs with reviewersSampleSize setting. However, it does not have any effect if bbUseDefaultReviewers=true.

Is there any way to limit number of reviewers for Bitbucket Cloud repositories with default reviewers specified?

[rarkins]

I've checked the code and confirmed it has no effect. The bbUseDefaultReviewers option is evaluated at the moment of createPr() within the bitbucket platform code, while reviewersSampleSize is evaluated after the PR is created and based off any configured reviewer list.

As a workaround, you'll need to configure reviewers in Renovate config manually and not use bbUseDefaultReviewers if the group is too large.

Alternatively, it will need a feature request issue in this repo for discussion of implementation details, but it would probably need yourself or someone else using BB Cloud with an interest in implementing it.

[ablekhman]

Thanks for the prompt answer!

configure reviewers in Renovate config manually and not use bbUseDefaultReviewers

This is what we ebed up doing. We simply added all team members to the reviewers setting and disabled bbUseDefaultReviewers.