git: 5a20c351ea45 - main - [skip ci] add a CODEOWNERS file

[Alan Somers]

On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 1:16 PM Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

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> On Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:11 PM Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 11:51, Alan Somers <asomers at freebsd.org> wrote:
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>> >> I think this file isn't the right place for (another copy of) this
>> >> text; perhaps the CODEOWNERS file should just reference the top-level
>> >> MAINTAINERS?
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>> > Except that CODEOWNERS is in a format that tools know how to parse.  If
>> anything, MAINTAINERS should be a symlink to CODEOWNERS.
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>> At least the file's location and user IDs suggest that it is specific
>> to GitHub; in any case I don't really care which one points to which.
>> I hope we can agree though that we don't really want two different
>> files representing code ownership in different ways that both
>> independently refer to a third mechanism for recording code ownership
>> that's external to the source tree?
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> It also works on gitlab, FWIW. The format is standard. Bummer we can't
> generate it based on where it is published...
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> Warner
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We could move it from .github/ into the top-level directory.  Github is
happy with that.  Is Gitlab happy too?