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-#
-# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
-# contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file distributed with
-# this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
-# The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
-# (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
-# the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
-#
-#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-#
-# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-# limitations under the License.
-#
-
-# This file is used for auto-assigning reviewers to PRs.
-#
-# The last matching rule wins. For details, see:
-# https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/
-
-# Per-language reviewers.
-*.go @herohde
-*.java @lukecwik @kennknowles @aaltay
-*.py @pabloem @robertwb @aaltay @charlesccychen
-
-# SDK components reviewers.
-/sdks/go/ @herohde
-
-/sdks/java/ @aaltay @kennknowles
-/sdks/java/core @lukecwik
-#/sdks/java/extensions
-/sdks/java/extensions/google-cloud-platform-core @lukecwik @chamikaramj
-#/sdks/java/extensions/jackson
-#/sdks/java/extensions/join-library
-#/sdks/java/extensions/protobuf
-#/sdks/java/extensions/sketching
-#/sdks/java/extensions/sorter
-/sdks/java/extensions/sql @akedin @apilloud @amaliujia @XuMingmin @xumingming @kennknowles
-/sdks/java/container @herohde @aaltay
-/sdks/java/fn-execution @lukecwik @angoenka
-/sdks/java/nexmark @echauchot @aromanenko-dev
-/sdks/java/build-tools @jasonkuster @swegner
-/sdks/java/harness @lukecwik
-/sdks/java/io @jbonofre @lukecwik @chamikaramj @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/parquet @lgajowy @jbonofre @aromanenko-dev
-/sdks/java/io/common @chamikaramj @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/file-based-io-tests @lgajowy @kkucharc @chamikaramj @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch-tests @echauchot @timrobertson100
-#/sdks/java/io/amazon-web-services
-/sdks/java/io/google-cloud-platform @lukecwik @chamikaramj
-/sdks/java/io/hadoop-input-format @aromanenko-dev @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/solr @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/kinesis @aromanenko-dev
-/sdks/java/io/redis @jbonofre
-/sdks/java/io/mongodb @jbonofre
-/sdks/java/io/hcatalog @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/elasticsearch @echauchot @jbonofre @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/jdbc @jbonofre @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/mqtt @jbonofre
-/sdks/java/io/hadoop-file-system @timrobertson100
-/sdks/java/io/amqp @jbonofre
-/sdks/java/io/cassandra @jbonofre @echauchot
-#/sdks/java/io/tika
-#/sdks/java/io/xml
-#/sdks/java/io/kafka
-/sdks/java/io/jms @jbonofre
-/sdks/java/io/hbase @timrobertson100 @aromanenko-dev
-/sdks/java/io/hadoop-common @timrobertson100
-#/sdks/java/maven-archetypes
-/sdks/java/javadoc @melap
-
-/sdks/python/ @aaltay @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/scripts @aaltay
-/sdks/python/container @herohde @aaltay @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/runners @pabloem @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/utils @pabloem @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/examples @aaltay @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/internal @aaltay @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/tools @pabloem @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/coders @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/portability @charlesccychen @robertwb @aaltay
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/typehints @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/options @pabloem @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/transforms @pabloem @aaltay @charlesccychen
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/testing @pabloem @aaltay
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/metrics @pabloem @aaltay
-/sdks/python/apache_beam/io @chamikaramj @aaltay @udim
-
-# Build and test infrastructure reviewers.
-#/.github
-/.test-infra @lgajowy
-/.test-infra/jenkins @lgajowy @kkucharc @echauchot
-/.test-infra/jupyter @udim
-/.test-infra/kubernetes @lgajowy @kkucharc
-/buildSrc @lukecwik
-/gradle @lukecwik
-/release @jbonofre
-#/release/src
-#/website/.jenkins
-build.gradle @lukecwik
-
-# Even more components reviewers.
-#/runners
-#/runners/samza
-/runners/gcp @pabloem @herohde @lukecwik @aaltay
-#/runners/apex
-/runners/core-java @lukecwik
-/runners/core-java/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/core/metrics @echauchot
-/runners/local-java @lukecwik
-/runners/java-fn-execution @lukecwik @angoenka
-/runners/core-construction-java @lukecwik
-/runners/flink @angoenka
-/runners/spark @jbonofre
-/runners/reference @lukecwik
-#/runners/gearpump
-/runners/extensions-java/metrics/src/main/java/org/apache/beam/runners/extensions/metrics @echauchot
-/runners/google-cloud-dataflow-java @pabloem @lukecwik
-/runners/direct-java @lukecwik
-
-/examples @aaltay
-/examples/java @lukecwik @aaltay
-
-/model @herohde @lukecwik
-/model/fn-execution @herohde @robertwb @lukecwik
-/model/job-management @herohde @robertwb @lukecwik
-/model/pipeline @herohde @robertwb @lukecwik
-
-/website @melap @timrobertson100
-/website/src @melap @timrobertson100