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To initially populate the CODEOWNERS file we will have a nomination period where any committer can nominate themselves or another committer to be owners of different areas of code by making PRs against the CODEOWNERS file on the feature/introduce-codeowners branch. After that period we will agree on the list of owners and commit merge the CODEOWNERS file to develop.

Future changes to the CODEOWNERS should be done with a PR against the CODEOWNERS file and a email to the dev list.

If no one signs up to be the owner of an area of code that area will  be left unowned and not require any owner approval.

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The geode repository is too big to have a single set of owners. Here is a proposed breakdown of the geode repository into functional areas. https://github.com/apache/geode/blob/feature/introduce-codeowners/CODEOWNERS.

Other repositories

These repositories are smaller and only need at most a single set of code owners for each repository.

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