Currently if you backport a PR of behalf of someone else, and you were the approving reviewer on the original PR, backport will attempt to request a review on the new PR from yourself, which Github denies:
{ HttpError: {"message":"Review cannot be requested from pull request author.","documentation_url":"https://developer.github.com/v3/pulls/review_requests/#create-a-review-request"}
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It should instead request a review from the original author.
Currently if you backport a PR of behalf of someone else, and you were the approving reviewer on the original PR,
backportwill attempt to request a review on the new PR from yourself, which Github denies:It should instead request a review from the original author.