Which environment protection rule requires a specific team member to approve a deployment before it proceeds?
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Short Explanation and Infographic
Required reviewers is the approval gate — you pick the people or teams that must give a thumbs-up before a deployment to that environment runs.
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Full Explanation
GitHub deployment environments support 'Required reviewers' as a protection rule, where up to 6 specific users or teams must approve before a workflow job targeting that environment can proceed. Other environment protection rules include: 'Wait timer' (delay deployment by N minutes), 'Deployment branches' (restrict which branches can deploy), 'Custom deployment protection rules' (call external gates via GitHub Apps). 'Branch protection' is a repository feature for PR rules, not environment-specific. 'Deployment gates' is not an official term. Required reviewers get a notification and can approve or reject in the GitHub UI.