[Yu Chen (jsntcy)]

🤖 PR Validation — ️✔️ All clear

Breaking Changes
️✔️ None

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Why do we rename CODEOWNERS to OWNERS?

As we move to a squad-based Scrum Master model, CODEOWNERS has become a bottleneck for code review productivity.

After we renamed CODEOWNERS to OWNERS, GitHub will then treat it (OWNERS) as a normal file, so we can keep the ownership information without triggering the built-in CODEOWNERS behavior (Merging will be blocked by owner's approval).

This also prevents GitHub from automatically requesting reviews from the listed owners, which no longer matches our process. Instead, the squad, acting as the Scrum Master, should be assigned as the reviewer.

[Copilot]

🟡 Changes recommended

The ownership verifier still opens the deleted file and will fail when run.

1 open issue

• Update verifier and README to use .github/OWNERS · New

What changed in this PR

Moves ownership information to a normal file to support squad-based reviews without GitHub’s built-in CODEOWNERS behavior.

Changes:

• Replaces .github/CODEOWNERS with .github/OWNERS.
• Updates many ownership entries to squad teams.

File	Description
.github/​OWNERS	Retains ownership information with updated squad assignments.
.github/​CODEOWNERS	Removes GitHub’s recognized ownership file.

_{Review effort: Balanced}

[Yu Chen (jsntcy)]

@Azure/x-engineering-agent Update verifier and README to use .github/OWNERS
The rename leaves scripts/ci/verify_codeowners.py:14–20 opening .github/CODEOWNERS, so running the verifier raises FileNotFoundError instead of checking ownership. Update it to read .github/OWNERS. Also update README.md:32, which still tells contributors to add owners to the old path; following that instruction could recreate the file and restore GitHub's automatic review behavior.

[Yong Zhang (yonzhan)]

Misc

[x-engineering-agent]

X Engineering Agent Report

Review — Comments

Yu Chen (@jsntcy)

Copilot's stale-path feedback is addressed: the verifier and README now reference .github/OWNERS.

P2 — Restore omitted ownership entries. .github/OWNERS:11–17 drops /src/aem/ and /src/alias/ from the former ownership list, but both directories still exist. The verifier reads OWNERS at scripts/ci/verify_codeowners.py:14,20–22, detects those missing entries at lines 26–29, and exits 1 at line 38. Restore both mappings with appropriate owners, then run the existing verifier to confirm they are no longer reported missing.

The supplied upstream CI snapshot reports no failures; I did not rerun CI, execute the verifier, or verify GitHub review-routing behavior.

Test validation

• Agent live test: Not run; this is a review-only PR. Check author-provided test evidence and upstream CI separately.
• Regression coverage: Not applicable to the changed files.

Risk assessment — 3/100 · Low

The Low rating reflects the detected change scope with no elevated security, reliability, customer, operational, dependency, sovereign-cloud, generated-output, or cross-component signal.

• Change scope: 4 changed files, 706 changed lines (+351 / -355), including 0 production files.
• Affected components: No production component was identified.
• Risk drivers: No elevated risk signal was detected.
• Regression evidence: No production-code regression-test signal applies.
• Confidence: Low because no production changed-line evidence was available.
• Required review: No additional owning-squad review signal was detected.

Posted by x-engineering-agent (Reviewer)