# adding "reviewer delegation" to MozReview

DevFeed: [adding "reviewer delegation" to MozReview](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/adding-reviewer-delegation-to-mozreview-20283.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://globau.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/adding-reviewer-delegation-to-mozreview/>)

Author: glob

Published: 2016-07-04T07:20:06Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Mozilla Automation](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/mozilla-automation.md>)

Topics: [Code review](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/code-review.md>), [Extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/extension.md>), [Authorization](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/authorization.md>), [Mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/mozilla.md>), [Git](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/git.md>)

Tags: [code-review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/code-review.md>), [extension](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/extension.md>), [mozilla](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozilla.md>), [mozreview](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/mozreview.md>), [permission](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/permission.md>), [review](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/review.md>)

## AI overview

This technical article describes the design challenges behind adding reviewer delegation to MozReview. It explains how MozReview integrates Review Board, Bugzilla, Mercurial, Git, and automation, and discusses permission handling, draft updates, and preserving the identity of the authenticated user when changes are attributed to the submitter.

## Source excerpt

Background One of the first projects I worked on when I moved to the MozReview team was "review delegation". The goal was to add the ability for a reviewer to redirect a review request to someone else. It turned out to be a change that was much more complicated than expected. MozReview is a Mozilla [...]