https://help.github.com/articles/about-codeowners/ These owners will be the default owners for everything in the repo. Unless a later match takes precedence, they will be requested for review when someone opens a PR. @JD2112 Order is important; the last matching pattern takes the most precedence. When someone opens a PR that only modifies .yml files, only the following people and NOT the global owner(s) will be requested for a review.