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If this situation comes up, as a workaround we could add other temporary person to that codeowner group who approves/reviews the changes meanwhile the codeowner comes back. Additionally, if the codeowner who is on PTO belongs to more than one codeowner group, there is no way for Maintainers/Owners to determine all the groups that person belongs to. <!-- What is the problem and solution you're proposing? This content sets the overall vision for the feature and serves as the release notes that will populate in various places, including the [release post blog](https://about.gitlab.com/releases/categories/releases/) and [Gitlab project releases](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/releases). " --> ### Problem to solve 1. If codeowners are not being able to approve/review Merge Requests due to their absence, the process gets stuck because Maintainers/Owners cannot modify the codeowners group they belong in order to add another person to temporarily backup the main codeowner. 2. Maintainers/Owners do not have a comprehensive coverage about all the codeowner groups that a person belongs to. <!-- What is the user problem you are trying to solve with this issue? --> ### Proposal 1. Maintainers/Owners could edit the members of codeowner groups for adding/removing users that for some reason are not being able to review/approve any Merge Request during a certain period of time. 2. Maintainers/Owners could propagate the temporary change of adding/removing a person to all groups where a codeowner belongs to. <!-- Use this section to explain the feature and how it will work. It can be helpful to add technical details, design proposals, and links to related epics or issues. --> ### Intended users This change is mainly focused for team managers who need a temporary person to approve/review Merge Requests on behalf of people who are temporarily out of the office. <!-- Who will use this feature? If known, include any of the following: types of users (e.g. Developer), personas, or specific company roles (e.g. Release Manager). It's okay to write "Unknown" and fill this field in later. Personas are described at https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/ * [Parker (Product Manager)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#parker-product-manager) * [Delaney (Development Team Lead)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#delaney-development-team-lead) * [Presley (Product Designer)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#presley-product-designer) * [Sasha (Software Developer)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#sasha-software-developer) * [Priyanka (Platform Engineer)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#priyanka-platform-engineer) * [Sidney (Systems Administrator)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#sidney-systems-administrator) * [Rachel (Release Manager)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#rachel-release-manager) * [Simone (Software Engineer in Test)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#simone-software-engineer-in-test) * [Allison (Application Ops)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#allison-application-ops) * [Ingrid (Infrastructure Operator)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#ingrid-infrastructure-operator) * [Dakota (Application Development Director)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#dakota-application-development-director) * [Dana (Data Analyst)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#dana-data-analyst) * [Eddie (Content Editor)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#eddie-content-editor) * [Amy (Application Security Engineer)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#amy-application-security-engineer) * [Isaac (Infrastructure Engineer)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#isaac-infrastructure-security-engineer) * [Alex (Security Operations Engineer)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#alex-security-operations-engineer) * [Cameron (Compliance Manager)](https://handbook.gitlab.com/handbook/product/personas/#cameron-compliance-manager) --> ### Feature Usage Metrics The whole Merge Request process does not get stuck when any of the codeowners is not being able to review/approve the code for a certain period of time. <!-- How are you going to track usage of this feature? 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