# Ownership of the merge gate's own configuration.
#
# Everything under .github/ is covered: the review workflow, the release
# workflow, the pinned review action reference, and this file itself. A change
# to any of them needs an approving review from an account the automation does
# not hold. Automation can author changes here; it cannot approve them.
#
# Why this path and no other: the review workflow runs from the pull request
# head on same-repo branches, so without this rule a pull request that weakens
# the reviewing logic is judged by the weakened logic it just introduced.
#
# This is the ONLY path in the repository that requires a human approval.
# Ordinary pull requests are gated by checks alone, and that is deliberate: a
# reviewer who has to approve everything approves nothing.

# Changes under these paths are authored by the repository's automation
# identity, never by the code owner: an author cannot approve their own pull
# request, so a change authored by the sole code owner would have no legal
# approver.

/.github/ @thebenignhacker
