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Date:      Mon, 31 May 2021 13:16:33 -0600
From:      Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com>
To:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Alan Somers <asomers@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, 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


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