This sounds like a great candidate for a plugin, similar to the LGTM plugin.

If you list emails in the TBR field and upload the change (or a subsequent patchset) with "git cl upload", they will be added to the list of reviewers.

I don't want to make this a plugin, because I would much rather change the TBR mechanism entirely. I have plans for a gerrit plugin which will watch for changes that are only self-approved, block them from being submitted if there are no other reviewers assigned, and otherwise allow them but automatically add "TBRed-To: name <email@domain>" trailers for every reviewer just like the "Reviewed-By: name <email@domain>" trailers that we get today.

Then folks won't have to manually manage TBRs, they just have to self-approve their own CLs. It also makes TBRs easier to audit, since the trailer is in an easily parseable format.

It looks like I don't yet have a bug assigned to myself for that work, so I'll repurpose this one now that I've written it out here :)

Moved issue gerrit:7892 to now be issue chromium:791781.

 Issue gerrit:5078  has been merged into this issue.

This is mentioned in my Q1 OKRs, so making Pri-1, but removing from Assigned to make the triage status more clear since I haven't actually begun work on it.

 Issue 624416  has been merged into this issue.

 Issue gerrit:8663  has been merged into this issue.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1k_avnvc6DkQgOKx_ANxYg6tYGt_hYX2Od_EgnAHPVfM/edit

Unassigning from myself and dropping to P2 because I'm on sabbatical. I'd love to come back to this eventually.