Release Notes v5.3

Owned by Markus Sutter

Last updated: Sept 15, 2022 by Michael Rüegg

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We released Code Owners 5.3 on Aug 24, 2022

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Features - Merge Check

Fallback group for absent Code Owners,
members of this group approvals count as CO to every merge check rule (opt-in)

Use-case: in case of absences of CodeOwners, PRs can not be merged and may block the team progress.
Define a group called FallbackOwners, and if members of that group are added to Pull Request and approve it, it counts towards the limit in Code Owners merge checks:

@@@FallbackOwners   @LisaTheFrontendExpert @PeterTheUISpecialist
ebanking/**/*.js    @@EbankingJSTeam
Check(@@EbankingJSTeam >= 2)

PR author considered as approving owner in group merge checks (opt-in)

If you want that PR authors, who are Code Owners themself for the changes, count towards group merge checks, you can now configure that.
Add the option: AuthorSelfApproval to the corresponding Group check. e.g.
Check(@@Devs>=2,AuthorSelfApproval)
which reduces limit by one, if PR author is also Code Owner as member of Devs group.

Changelog

5.3.0 : resolved issues on Aug 24, 2022

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