Should we implement CODEOWNERS for the directories of this repo?

[cclauss]

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/creating-cloning-and-archiving-repositories/about-code-owners

Maintainers could volunteer to be assigned to all new PRs for particular folders in the repo this would mean that a maintainer would have 5 or 10 pull requests to review in topic areas that they are interested in instead of wading thru the current 224 open PRs.

[dhruvmanila]

This would be extremely useful but there's some caveats:

• We have over dozens of directories (around 40)
• If a maintainer is responsible for 5 directories, we need over 8 of them. This is assuming that we will divide it by 5, if it is less, then more number of maintainers will be required.
• I might be wrong but I don't think we have that many active maintainers.

[cclauss]

Is it possible to start with a partial implementation? Just a few directories are assigned to just a few maintainers and the other directories continue to have no owners? I would be interested to be assigned:

• .github
• ciphers
• conversions
• data_structures
• others
• strings
• web_programming

[dhruvmanila]

Yeah that would be fine. I haven't actually looked at all the directories to decide for myself, but to start I will take the entire project_euler directory. I am also interested in Machine Learning and Neural Networks.

I will create a PR for this but before that can you take a look at #2973 ?