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Date:      Mon, 31 May 2021 13:20:59 -0600
From:      Alan Somers <asomers@freebsd.org>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "<dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>" <dev-commits-src-all@freebsd.org>, dev-commits-src-main@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: git: 5a20c351ea45 - main - [skip ci] add a CODEOWNERS file
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On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 1:16 PM Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Mon, May 31, 2021, 1:11 PM Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 31 May 2021 at 11:51, Alan Somers <asomers@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
>

We could move it from .github/ into the top-level directory.  Github is
happy with that.  Is Gitlab happy too?



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