Code ownership
Code ownership is the assignment of responsibility for reviewing, maintaining, or evolving specified source code or software components.
Automating API Delivery
A code owner is an individual or team designated to review and approve changes to specified files, file types, or directories in a version-controlled repository.
- How it is used
- Requires domain-expert approval for PRs changing selected API files before merge.
- How deep it goes
- Defines the approval rule and walks through CODEOWNERS and branch-protection setup, without detailing pattern syntax.
- Examples
- Uses a GitHub CODEOWNERS file assigning a reviewer to chapter8/apis, alongside required PR jobs.
- What you can do after
- Operate/configure code-owner approval alongside required PR status checks for selected API artifacts.
"Looks Good to Me"
A person or team designated as responsible for reviewing changes to specified parts of a codebase.
- How it is used
- Routes pull-request reviews to people or teams based on changed files and relevant expertise.
- How deep it goes
- Explains automatic assignment, file-pattern precedence, supported locations, and base-branch requirements.
- Examples
- Uses React JSX changes, legacy systems, and a CODEOWNERS listing with global, specific, email, and team owners.
- What you can do after
- Operate GitHub review automation by configuring CODEOWNERS patterns, owners, precedence, and branch placement.
Related concepts
- CODEOWNERS fileconfigured by · A CODEOWNERS file is a repository configuration file that maps file paths to people or teams responsible for reviewing changes to those paths.
- pull requestconfigures · A pull request is a version-control proposal to integrate changes from one branch or repository into another, typically supporting review and discussion before merging.
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