CODEOWNERS: Use sections to allow multiple matching entries
The CODEOWNERS documentation has this to say on the current matching behaviour: > The path definition order is significant: the last pattern matching a > given path is used to find the code owners. Take this as an example: /rts/ bgamari [...] /rts/win32/ Phyx (I'm omitting the '@' so as to not notification spam everyone) This means a change in a file under win23 would only have Phyx but not bgamari as approver. I don't think that's the behaviour we want. Using "sections" we can get additive behaviour instead, from the docs: > Additionally, the usual guidance that only the last pattern matching the > file is applied is expanded such that the last pattern matching for each > section is applied. [RTS] /rts/ bgamari [...] [WinIO] /rts/win32/ Phyx So now since those entries are in different sections both would be added to the approvers list. The sections feature was introduced in Gitlab 13.2, see "Version history" on [1] we're currently running 18.8 on gitlab.haskell.org, see [2]. [1]: https://docs.gitlab.com/13.8/ee/user/project/code_owners.html#code-owners-sections [2]: https://gitlab.haskell.org/help
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