Separate Code Owners from the Approval Rules and Allow Layered Permissions in CODEOWNERS File

Release notes

Code Owner Approvals should work independently from Approval Rules and should allow for layered permission to enforce multiple layers of approval in CODEOWNERS.

Problem to solve

In the following codeowners file:

/test-dir1 @testuser1 @testuser7

/test-dir2 @testuser2 @testuser8

testfile1.py @testuser3 @testuser9

/ @testuser4 @testuser5 @testuser6

Only the top level of approvers at / are required. Increasing the required number of approvals to 2 users does not resolve this, nor should it be a requirement.

Proposal

Separate the CODEOWNERS approval from the Approval Rules and allow CODEOWNERS to respect layers permissions in the file (i.e.: directory / sub-directory / file / file type).

Intended users

• Delaney (Development Team Lead)
• Sasha (Software Developer)
• Priyanka (Platform Engineer)
• Alex (Security Operations Engineer)
• Simone (Software Engineer in Test)

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