diff --git a/ci/get-reviewers.sh b/ci/get-reviewers.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell --pure -i bash -p codeowners jq gitMinimal cacert
+
+# This script gets the list of codeowning users and teams based on a codeowners file
+# from a base commit and all files that have been changed since then.
+# The result is suitable as input to the GitHub REST API call to request reviewers for a PR.
+# This can be used to simulate the automatic codeowner review requests
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+tmp=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' exit
+
+if (( "$#" < 3 )); then
+    echo "Usage: $0 LOCAL_REPO BASE_REF HEAD_REF OWNERS_FILE" >&2
+    exit 1
+fi
+localRepo=$1
+baseRef=$2
+headRef=$3
+ownersFile=$4
+prAuthor=$5
+
+readarray -d '' -t touchedFiles < \
+    <(
+      # The names of all files, null-delimited, starting from HEAD, stopping before the base
+      git -C "$localRepo" diff --name-only -z --merge-base "$baseRef" "$headRef" |
+      # Remove duplicates
+      sort -z --unique
+    )
+
+#echo "These files were touched: ${touchedFiles[*]}" >&2
+
+# Get the owners file from the base, because we don't want to allow PRs to
+# remove code owners to avoid pinging them
+git -C "$localRepo" show "$baseRef":"$ownersFile" > "$tmp"/codeowners
+
+# Associative array, where the key is the team/user, while the value is "1"
+# This makes it very easy to get deduplication
+declare -A teams users
+
+for file in "${touchedFiles[@]}"; do
+    read -r file owners <<< "$(codeowners --file "$tmp"/codeowners "$file")"
+    if [[ "$owners" == "(unowned)" ]]; then
+        #echo "File $file doesn't have an owner" >&2
+        continue
+    fi
+    #echo "Owner of $file is $owners" >&2
+
+    # Split up multiple owners, separated by arbitrary amounts of spaces
+    IFS=" " read -r -a entries <<< "$owners"
+
+    for entry in "${entries[@]}"; do
+        # GitHub technically also supports Emails as code owners,
+        # but we can't easily support that, so let's not
+        if [[ ! "$entry" =~ @(.*) ]]; then
+            echo -e "\e[33mCodeowner \"$entry\" for file $file is not valid: Must start with \"@\"\e[0m" >&2
+            # Don't fail, because the PR for which this script runs can't fix it,
+            # it has to be fixed in the base branch
+            continue
+        fi
+        # The first regex match is everything after the @
+        entry=${BASH_REMATCH[1]}
+        if [[ "$entry" =~ .*/(.*) ]]; then
+            # Only teams have a /
+            teams[${BASH_REMATCH[1]}]=1
+        else
+            # Everything else is a user
+            # But cannot request a review from the author
+            if [[ "$entry" != "$prAuthor" ]]; then
+                users[$entry]=1
+            fi
+        fi
+    done
+
+done
+
+# Turn it into a JSON for the GitHub API call to request PR reviewers
+jq -n \
+    --arg users "${!users[*]}" \
+    --arg teams "${!teams[*]}" \
+    '{
+      reviewers: $users | split(" "),
+      team_reviewers: $teams | split(" ")
+    }'
diff --git a/ci/request-reviews.sh b/ci/request-reviews.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+set -euo pipefail
+tmp=$(mktemp -d)
+trap 'rm -rf "$tmp"' exit
+SCRIPT_DIR=$(dirname "$0")
+
+baseRepo=$1
+prNumber=$2
+ownersFile=$3
+
+prInfo=$(gh api \
+  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
+  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
+  "/repos/$baseRepo/pulls/$prNumber")
+
+baseBranch=$(jq -r .base.ref <<< "$prInfo")
+prRepo=$(jq -r .head.repo.full_name <<< "$prInfo")
+prBranch=$(jq -r .head.ref <<< "$prInfo")
+prAuthor=$(jq -r .user.login <<< "$prInfo")
+
+headRef=refs/remotes/fork/pr
+
+git clone --bare --filter=tree:0 --no-tags --origin upstream https://github.com/"$baseRepo".git "$tmp"/nixpkgs.git
+# Fetch the PR
+git -C "$tmp/nixpkgs.git" remote add fork https://github.com/"$prRepo".git
+# Make sure we only fetch the commit history, nothing else
+git -C "$tmp/nixpkgs.git" config remote.fork.promisor true
+git -C "$tmp/nixpkgs.git" config remote.fork.partialclonefilter tree:0
+# Only fetch into a remote ref, because the local ref namespace is used by Nixpkgs, don't want any conflicts
+git -C "$tmp/nixpkgs.git" fetch --no-tags fork "$prBranch":"$headRef"
+
+
+"$SCRIPT_DIR"/verify-base-branch.sh "$tmp/nixpkgs.git" "$headRef" "$baseRepo" "$baseBranch" "$prRepo" "$prBranch"
+
+reviewersJSON=$("$SCRIPT_DIR"/get-reviewers.sh "$tmp/nixpkgs.git" "$baseBranch" "$headRef" "$ownersFile" "$prAuthor")
+
+echo "$reviewersJSON"
+
+if ! response=$(curl -LsS --fail-with-body \
+  -X POST \
+  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
+  -H "Authorization: Bearer $(gh auth token)" \
+  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
+  https://api.github.com/repos/"$baseRepo"/pulls/"$prNumber"/requested_reviewers \
+  -d "$reviewersJSON"); then
+  echo "Failed to request reviews: $response"
+fi
diff --git a/ci/verify-base-branch.sh b/ci/verify-base-branch.sh
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+#!/usr/bin/env nix-shell
+#!nix-shell -i bash --pure -p gitMinimal cacert
+
+# This script Checks that a PR doesn't include commits that are already in other development branches
+# This commonly happens when users pick the wrong base branch for a PR
+
+set -euo pipefail
+
+# Small helper to check whether an element is in a list
+# Usage: `elementIn foo "${list[@]}"`
+elementIn() {
+    local e match=$1
+    shift
+    for e; do
+        if [[ "$e" == "$match" ]]; then
+            return 0
+        fi
+    done
+    return 1
+}
+
+if (( $# < 5 )); then
+    echo "Usage: $0 LOCAL_REPO PR_HEAD_REF BASE_REPO BASE_BRANCH PR_REPO PR_BRANCH"
+    exit 1
+fi
+localRepo=$1
+headRef=$2
+baseRepo=$3
+baseBranch=$4
+prRepo=$5
+prBranch=$6
+
+readarray -t developmentBranches < <(git -C "$localRepo" branch --list --format "%(refname:short)" {master,staging{,-next}} 'release-*' 'staging-*' 'staging-next-*')
+
+if ! elementIn "$baseBranch" "${developmentBranches[@]}"; then
+    echo "PR does not go to any base branch among (${developmentBranches[*]}), no commit check necessary" >&2
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+if [[ "$baseRepo" == "$prRepo" ]] && elementIn "$prBranch" "${developmentBranches[@]}"; then
+    echo "This is a merge of $prBranch into $baseBranch, no commit check necessary" >&2
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+for branch in "${developmentBranches[@]}"; do
+
+    if [[ -z "$(git -C "$localRepo" rev-list -1 --since="1 year ago" "$branch")" ]]; then
+        # Skip branches that haven't been active for a year
+        continue
+    fi
+    echo "Checking for extra commits from branch $branch" >&2
+
+    # The first ancestor of the PR head that already exists in the other branch
+    mergeBase=$(git -C "$localRepo" merge-base "$headRef" "$branch")
+
+    # The number of commits that are reachable from the PR head, not reachable from the PRs base branch
+    # (up to here this would be the number of commits in the PR itself),
+    # but that are _also_ in the development branch we're testing against.
+    # So, in other words, the number of commits that the PR includes from other development branches
+    count=$(git -C "$localRepo" rev-list --count "$mergeBase" ^"$baseBranch")
+
+    if (( count != 0 )); then
+        echo -en "\e[31m"
+        echo "This PR's base branch is set to $baseBranch, but $count already-merged commits are included from the $branch branch."
+        echo "To remedy this, first make sure you know the target branch for your changes: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#branch-conventions"
+        echo "- If the changes should go to the $branch branch instead, change the base branch accordingly:"
+        echo "  https://docs.github.com/en/pull-requests/collaborating-with-pull-requests/proposing-changes-to-your-work-with-pull-requests/changing-the-base-branch-of-a-pull-request"
+        echo "- If the changes should really go to the $baseBranch branch, rebase your PR on top of the merge base with the $branch branch:"
+        echo "  git rebase --onto $mergeBase && git push --force-with-lease"
+        echo -en "\e[0m"
+        exit 1
+    fi
+done
+
+echo "All good, no extra commits from any development branch"