[GEODE-9028] introduce CODEWATCHERS

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: 1.15.0
• Component/s: ci
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Owen Nichols
• Created: 12/Mar/21 09:20
• Updated: 22/Jun/22 20:46
• Resolved: 13/Mar/21 01:49

Description

CODEOWNERS confers both notification for a code area, as well as gatekeeper responsibilty.

In some cases, you may want just the notification aspect, but not the responsibility of being a required codeowner reviewer.

Introducing CODEWATCHERS.  This has the same syntax as CODEOWNERS but adds you as an optional reviewer rather than a required reviewer (you still need to be a Geode committer...non-committers may be interested in GitHub's atom feed capability instead)

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #6126