The OWNERS file is processed by the @PLUGIN@ for automatically assigning all relevant owners to a change for every new patch-set uploaded.
The way that the reviewers are added is controlled by the $GERRIT_SITE/etc/@PLUGIN@.config file.
By default, all reviewers are added synchronously when a patch-set is uploaded. However, you may want to delay the assignment of additional reviewers to a later stage for lowering the pressure on the Git repository associated with concurrent updates.
For example, the following configuration would delay the assignment of reviewers by 5 seconds:
[reviewers] async = true delay = 5 sec
See below the full list of configuration settings available:
reviewers.async: assign reviewers asynchronously. When set to false, all the other settings in @PLUGIN@.config are ignored. By default, set to false.
reviewers.delay: delay of the assignment of reviewers since the upload of a new patch-set, expressed in . By default, set to 0.
Values should use common unit suffixes to express their setting:
ms, milliseconds
s, sec, second, seconds
m, min, minute, minutes
h, hr, hour, hours
reviewers.retryCount: number of retries for attempting to assign reviewers to a change. By default, set to 2.
reviewers.retryInterval: delay between retries. Expressed in the same format of the reviewers.delay. By default, set to the same value of reviewers.delay.
reviewers.threads: maximum concurrency of threads for assigning reviewers to changes. By default, set to 1.