author_value

If the PR author is a also an eligible reviewer, you can count their approval automatically.

An author's own review never counts toward require — even on platforms that allow self-approval (GitLab allows it by default on the Free tier). author_value is the one way to give the author credit toward their own PR.

By default, author_value is 0. Typically you will use 1 to count the author as one approval, but you can use bigger numbers to give the author more weight in the approval process.

[[scopes]]
name = "app"
author_value = 1
require = 1
reviewers = ["dev1"]