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

[Warner Losh]

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:
> >
> >>
> >> 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?
> >
> > Except that CODEOWNERS is in a format that tools know how to parse.  If
> anything, MAINTAINERS should be a symlink to CODEOWNERS.
>
> 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?


It also works on gitlab, FWIW. The format is standard. Bummer we can't
generate it based on where it is published...

Warner