diff --git a/.github/actions/add-maintainers-as-reviewers/Dockerfile b/.github/actions/add-maintainers-as-reviewers/Dockerfile
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-FROM python:3.7-alpine
-
-RUN pip install pygithub
-
-ADD entrypoint.py /entrypoint.py
-ENTRYPOINT ["/entrypoint.py"]
diff --git a/.github/actions/add-maintainers-as-reviewers/entrypoint.py b/.github/actions/add-maintainers-as-reviewers/entrypoint.py
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--- a/.github/actions/add-maintainers-as-reviewers/entrypoint.py
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-#!/usr/bin/env python
-#
-# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
-# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
-#
-# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
-
-"""Maintainer review action.
-
-This action checks which packages have changed in a PR, and adds their
-maintainers to the pull request for review.
-"""
-
-import json
-import os
-import re
-import subprocess
-
-from github import Github
-
-
-def spack(*args):
-    """Run the spack executable with arguments, and return the output split.
-
-    This does just enough to run `spack pkg` and `spack maintainers`, the
-    two commands used by this action.
-    """
-    github_workspace = os.environ['GITHUB_WORKSPACE']
-    spack = os.path.join(github_workspace, 'bin', 'spack')
-    output = subprocess.check_output([spack] + list(args))
-    split = re.split(r'\s*', output.decode('utf-8').strip())
-    return [s for s in split if s]
-
-
-def main():
-    # get these first so that we'll fail early
-    token = os.environ['GITHUB_TOKEN']
-    event_path = os.environ['GITHUB_EVENT_PATH']
-
-    with open(event_path) as file:
-        data = json.load(file)
-
-    # make sure it's a pull_request event
-    assert 'pull_request' in data
-
-    # only request reviews on open, edit, or reopen
-    action = data['action']
-    if action not in ('opened', 'edited', 'reopened'):
-        return
-
-    # get data from the event payload
-    pr_data             = data['pull_request']
-    base_branch_name    = pr_data['base']['ref']
-    full_repo_name      = pr_data['base']['repo']['full_name']
-    pr_number           = pr_data['number']
-    requested_reviewers = pr_data['requested_reviewers']
-    author              = pr_data['user']['login']
-
-    # get a list of packages that this PR modified
-    changed_pkgs = spack(
-        'pkg', 'changed', '--type', 'ac', '%s...' % base_branch_name)
-
-    # get maintainers for all modified packages
-    maintainers = set()
-    for pkg in changed_pkgs:
-        pkg_maintainers = set(spack('maintainers', pkg))
-        maintainers |= pkg_maintainers
-
-    # remove any maintainers who are already on the PR, and the author,
-    # as you can't review your own PR)
-    maintainers -= set(requested_reviewers)
-    maintainers -= set([author])
-
-    if not maintainers:
-        return
-
-    # request reviews from each maintainer
-    gh = Github(token)
-    repo = gh.get_repo(full_repo_name)
-    pr = repo.get_pull(pr_number)
-    pr.create_review_request(list(maintainers))
-
-
-if __name__ == "__main__":
-    main()