chore: remove per component code owners #6516
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Today the nearcore code review process is substandard. When a PR is submitted, code owners’ reviews are automatically requested. Given that some components have a few code owners, often a PR automatically requests review from many people. At the same time, a PR needs approvals from at least one code owner of every component. As a result, the code review process may take several days and sometimes people ignore those review requests thinking that other code owners would review them instead.
After some discussion with @mm-near and @matklad, we decide to experiment with the following solution: there will be a single team of codeowners and once a pull request is submitted, one of the codeowners' review will be requested. The chosen codeowner can re-assign to another person for review if they feel they don't have sufficient expertise to review the PR. This should increase the turnaround time for a PR to get merged. Let's see how it goes and we can adjust the process as we go.