Re: [debops-users] RFC: Merge all DebOps git repositories into one

On 2017-08-27 15:25, Maciej Delmanowski wrote: > On Aug 26, Robin Schneider wrote: >> It would be much more difficult to watch only parts of DebOps. For example, I >> maintain debops.cryptsetup and a few others and would need to watch for issues >> and PRs. >> Getting notified for all PRs/issues of DebOps directly does not scale. >> >> I guess the easiest solution would be a PR/issue template where contributors >> need to CC the role maintainer. That should solve it. > > No need for that - https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/. > In short, it's a file in the root directory of the repository that specifies > what files or paths are maintained by who, and when a new PR is published that > changes one of these files, a person is added as a reviewer of that PR. Of > course this works only on GitHub, but could be scripted elsewhere. Linux > kernel uses a similar system with the MAINTAINERS file, which was an > inspiration for the CODEOWNERS on GitHub. Nice, I did not know that. That would solve it.