Introduce a CODEOWNERS files

A CODEOWNERS file associates files with users and groups.

Including such a file in Moore could be useful for assigning issues and MRs to relevant people, and to find out who should be contacted for questions on certain files. This might be particularly useful once many HLT lines are added.

This seems like a nice way to link our "deliverables" to "responsibles". Any reason to restrict it to Moore?

Not fundamentally, but adding it to Moore would be easy atm as there's no orphaned/legacy code.

Nice one. Urania can really benefit from this, as well as other projects.

Agree, but if we are anyway cleaning up Rec and Phys and merging them, that seems an excellent moment to use this kind of file to really put together the code and assigned responsibilities. If I had known about this concept I might well have pushed for this in January already! Anyway can certainly start with Moore and then move onwards from there.

yeah that can be useful. We can't require approval from "owners" as this is a premium feature, but at least they come up like so in the merge request (rmatev/test-public!4 (closed)):

PS. I'm not a big fan of "owner" but fine :)

Yeah, if that was not the convention used by github and gitlab, I would also vote against the term owner.

Agreed, but at least we can explain our understanding of the file in comments. Then we just need to decide what that understanding is. Perhaps something like

Files are assigned "owners" based on people's personal and professional investments. They do not "own" the code, as everyone is free to modify everything and to approve all changes of others, but are more likely to be interested in changes to those files.

As examples, an RTA work package coordinator may be interested in all HLT2 selections, a physics analysis working group convenor may be interested in selections relevant to their group, and the original author may be interested in a specific line in a particular file. All of these people would be marked here as "owners".

that seems fair enough -- owner is very unfortunate terminology but if that's the "real world" convention then so be it.

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