Re: Purpose of the CODEOWNERS file

Matthew Pickering writes:

There have been a flurry of MRs to add ownership to the CODEOWNERS file but it's not clear to me what this file does.

It links to this page: https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/code_owners.html

Which explains the syntax quite thoroughly but doesn't as far as I can see explain how this information is used?

So before I add myself to some files, what does adding ownership actually do?

When you open a merge request GitLab assigns a set of appropriate reviewers. This set is determined by the owners of the files your merge request touches [1]. Cheers, - Ben [1] https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/merge_requests/merge_request_approva...