Agreed to remove automatic tagging. Just one minor concern, does removing CODEOWNERS impact committers' write privilege? I hope not.
Yufei On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 9:48 AM Eric Maynard <eric.w.mayn...@gmail.com> wrote: > I agree that the automatic tagging is getting out of hand, thanks for > raising this. I think just deleting CODEOWNERS is a pretty good idea. > > Once that's done however, I worry that a potential contributor might not > know who to tag on a PR and might either just pick someone randomly or be > stuck waiting for someone to happen to see the PR. It would be good if we > could somehow create different teams you can add for review, or maybe tag > different people on the PR based on the label added to it. Or, maybe we > could keep CODEOWNERS as an opt-in thing. > > --EM > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2025 at 9:27 AM Robert Stupp <sn...@snazy.de> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > as of today, every committer to Polaris is mentioned in the CODEOWNERS > > file. This forces every committer to receive an email for every PR > > creation, every comment, every merge and so on - quite a lot of emails > > every day. IMHO it's already quite difficult to prioritize those or even > > figure out mentions. > > > > Therefore, I propose to delete the CODEOWNERS file entirely. This leaves > > everybody still the option to subscribe to all these messages via GitHub > > settings or the issues@ / commits@ mailing lists. But that's an opt-in > > for those who want it - contrary for those who do not want all emails > > without, but not have an out-out. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Robert > > > > >
