Code Owners Configuration

For GitHub Code Owners is built in. See About code owners in the GitHub documentation for configuration details.

For Bitbucket, follow the steps below in order to configure the CODEOWNERS plugin.

  • Add a CODEOWNERS file in the root of your repository.

  • In the Bitbucket repository, go to Repository Settings -> Merge Checks and enable the Code Owners minimum approvals option. If there are multiple teams that own the project use the Min. # of approvals for each group option.

  • To configure the owners of the projects and files of the repository, read the following instructions:

# Either put this in a file called CODEOWNERS
# Every line is a file pattern that is followed by one or more code owners.
# Lines starting with # are comments.

# This user will be the default owner for everything in the repo.
*                        AllMighty_Owner@trimble.com

# Ordering is important! The last matching file pattern has the highest precedence.
# So if only a Java file is in the pull request, The_Java_Guy@trimble is the code owner
# and not the default owner AllMighty_Owner@trimble.
*.java                   The_Java_Guy@trimble.com

# You can also use Bitbucket groups which start with '@@' compared to single users.
# This will add all members of the Bitbucket group JSExperts.
*.js                     Some_Guy_Paul@trimble.com @@JSExperts

# If you want, you can define your own code owner groups instead of using Bitbucket groups.
# This will define a new group MyDevs, both including users and other groups:
@@@MyDevs                Some_Guy_Paul@trimble.com  The_Java_Guy@trimble.com @@JSDevs

# For Bitbucket users and groups with spaces in their name, put them into double quotes.
*.ts                     @@"Dev Ops Team"

# When your glob expression contains spaces, put the glob into double quotes.
"a/path with spaces/*"   docs@trimble.com

# Files starting with a `#` or a `!` can still be used by escaping them.
\#myfile.rb              Some_Guy_Paul@trimble.com
\!your-file.rb           @@MyDevs

# AnnTheScalaPro is the code owner of all files in the /src/main/scala directory at
# the root and all its descendants (e.g., /src/main/scala/com/x/y/z.scala).
/src/main/scala/         AnnTheScalaPro@trimble.com

# ci/* will match all files in the directory ci, but not deeper in
# the directory hierarchy (so ci/jobs/prod.yml will not match).
ci/*                     @devops

# You can use '!' for negation in front of file pattern without any code owners afterwards,
# to unset all previously defined code owners of the files.
# e.g. devops group wants to review everything under ci (as defined above),
# except ci/playgrounds.yml, which nobody needs to review:
!ci/playgrounds.yml

# It's also possible to use double-asterisk globs. Here's an example that will match
# all JS files under /src/components.
src/components/**/*.js   @@MyDevs

# MyDevs owns any files in the groovy directory anywhere in the
# file tree (e.g., src/main/groovy/com/x/y/z.groovy).
groovy/                  @@MyDevs

# It is important to protect CODEOWNERS file as well because otherwise it can get deleted
# or moved within a pull request; so we want to assign a code owner to it which can prevent this
CODEOWNERS               AllMighty_Owner@trimble.com

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