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A fork PR sat open for two weeks with nobody assigned to it. Owning every path means GitHub requests a review from the maintainer the moment an outside contribution arrives, which is the notification that was missing. Code-owner review is deliberately not made *required* in branch protection: as the sole owner I cannot approve my own PR, and requiring it would block every release behind an admin bypass. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.github/CODEOWNERSwith* @Coldbari, so every pull request that touchesthe repo automatically requests a review from the maintainer.
PR #24 (an outside fork contribution, 102 files) sat open for two weeks with no
reviewer assigned and no notification raised. The repo also had
subscribers_count: 0— nobody was watching it, including the owner. CODEOWNERSis the second net: a review request fires regardless of watch settings.
Code-owner review is intentionally not set to required in branch protection.
As the sole code owner I cannot approve my own PR, so requiring it would put
every release behind an admin bypass.
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