Requesting team as reviewer doesn't respect auto assignment upon PR creation

[uccmen]

Describe the bug My team has auto-assignment enabled. However, when requesting team as reviewer in a workflow step, it doesn't behave as documented.

When you enable auto assignment, any time your team has been requested to review a pull request, the team is removed as a reviewer and a specified subset of team members are assigned in the team's place.

github.rest.pulls.requestReviewers({
    owner: context.repo.owner,
    repo: context.repo.repo,
    pull_number: context.payload.pull_request.number,
    team_reviewers: ["awesomeTeamSlug"]
});

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Enable auto-assignment with Round Robin strategy for your team on Github
2. Create a workflow file that requests your team as reviewer when a PR is created in a repo

   
   name: Sample workflow

on: pull_request: types:

• opened
• reopened

permissions: pull-requests: write

jobs: assign: runs-on: ubuntu-latest steps:

• name: Set team as reviewer uses: actions/github-script@v6 with: github-token: ${{inputs.custom-github-token}} # need a PAT to add team as reviewer script: | github.rest.pulls.requestReviewers({ owner: context.repo.owner, repo: context.repo.repo, pull_number: context.payload.pull_request.number, team_reviewers: ["awesomeTeamSlug"] });

  
  3. Make any change and open a PR
  4. Observe that the team as an entity is assigned to the PR instead of a specified subset of team member.

Expected behavior

• "the team is removed as a reviewer and a specified subset of team members are assigned in the team's place"

Additional context This bug/odd behavior seems to only occur when PR is initially created. If I configure the workflow to run upon PR reopened, it works as expected.

[sregmi-brex]

We've been running into this issue as well, has a fix been found?

[dudicoco]

For anyone who has run into this issue, it is fixed by enabling Require review from Code Owners in branch protection settings.

This seems like either a bug or misleading docs.