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

[Jessica Clarke]

On 31 May 2021, at 20:16, 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:
> 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…

We could conceivably have a CODEOWNERS.master from which the others can be generated via `make codeowners` whenever someone edits it. Whether that’s worth the hassle of implementing though for a file that shouldn’t regularly be changing is unclear.

Jess