NOTE: The find-owners plugin has been deprecated in favour of the code-owners plugin.
This plugin works with Gerrit projects that use Android or Chromium compatible OWNERS files. The OWNERS files specify owners, or active maintainers, of a project and its directories or files. Changes to those files or directories will need owner's review and approval before submission, with some exceptions.
Syntax and some examples of OWNERS files are described in syntax.md.
Configuration examples of this plugin are included in config.md. Prolog submit_rule
or submit_filter
are used to enforce owner's review and approval for projects with OWNERS files.
A [FIND OWNERS] action button is added to the Gerrit revision screen. The button pops up a window that contains
A REST API is added to get owners information of a change. The API is described in rest-api.md.