Commit 22ab7aea authored by Thiago Figueiró's avatar Thiago Figueiró Committed by Marcia Ramos

Review Code Owners doc

- Improve group and subgroup description
- Add illustration
- Move version history note
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> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/merge_requests/6916)
in [GitLab Starter](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 11.3.
> - [Support for group namespaces](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/53182) added in GitLab Starter 12.1.
> - Code Owners for Merge Request approvals was [introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/4418) in [GitLab Premium](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 11.9.
## Introduction
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- A user's `@username`.
- A user's email address.
- The `@name` of one or more groups that should be owners of the file.
- Lines starting with `#` are escaped.
Groups must be added as [members of the project](members/index.md),
or they will be ignored.
The order in which the paths are defined is significant: the last pattern that
matches a given path will be used to find the code owners.
Starting in [GitLab 13.0](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/32432),
you can additionally specify groups or subgroups from the project's upper group
hierarchy as potential code owners, without having to invite them specifically
to the project. Groups outside the project's hierarchy or children beneath the
hierarchy must still be explicitly invited to the project in order to show as
Code Owners.
### Groups as Code Owners
For example, consider the following hierarchy for the example project
`example_project`:
> - [Introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-foss/-/issues/53182) in GitLab Starter 12.1.
> - Group and subgroup hierarchy support was [introduced](https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/32432) in [GitLab Starter](https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/) 13.0.
```plaintext
group >> sub-group >> sub-subgroup >> example_project >> file.md
```
Groups and subgroups members are inherited as eligible Code Owners to a
project, as long as the hierarchy is respected.
For example, consider a given group called "Group X" (slug `group-x`) and a
"Subgroup Y" (slug `group-x/subgroup-y`) that belongs to the Group X, and
suppose you have a project called "Project A" within the group and a
"Project B" within the subgroup.
Any of the following groups would be eligible to be specified as code owners:
The eligible Code Owners to Project B are both the members of the Group X and
the Subgroup Y. And the eligible Code Owners to the Project A are just the
members of the Group X, given that Project A doesn't belong to the Subgroup Y:
- `@group`
- `@group/sub-group`
- `@group/sub-group/sub-subgroup`
![Eligible Code Owners](img/code_owners_members_v13_4.png)
In addition, any groups that have been invited to the project using the
**Members** tool will also be recognized as eligible code owners.
But you have the option to [invite](members/share_project_with_groups.md)
the Subgroup Y to the Project A so that their members also become eligible
Code Owners:
The order in which the paths are defined is significant: the last
pattern that matches a given path will be used to find the code
owners.
![Invite subgroup members to become eligible Code Owners](img/code_owners_invite_members_v13_4.png)
Starting a line with a `#` indicates a comment. This needs to be
escaped using `\#` to address files for which the name starts with a
`#`.
Once invited, any member (`@user`) of the group or subgroup can be set
as Code Owner to files of the Project A or B, as well as the entire Group X
(`@group-x`) or Subgroup Y (`@group-x/subgroup-y`), as exemplified below:
```plaintext
# A member of the group or subgroup as Code Owner to a file
file.md @user
# All group members as Code Owners to a file
file.md @group-x
# All subgroup members as Code Owners to a file
file.md @group-x/subgroup-y
# All group and subgroup members as Code Owners to a file
file.md @group-x @group-x/subgroup-y
```
### Code Owners Sections **(PREMIUM)**
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