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+#
+# The CODEOWNERS files is owned by all teams.
+# To change ownerhip all teams need to approve.
+#
+/.github/CODEOWNERS @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp @gitpod-io/engineering-ide @gitpod-io/engineering-self-hosted  @gitpod-io/platform
+
+/components/blobserve @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/common-go @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/content-service-api @csweichel @geropl
+/components/content-service @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/dashboard @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/docker-up @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/ee/agent-smith @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/ee/db-sync @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/ee/kedge @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/ee/payment-endpoint @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/gitpod-cli @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/components/gitpod-db @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/gitpod-messagebus @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/gitpod-protocol @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/gitpod-protocol/java @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/components/ide @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/components/ide-proxy @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/components/image-builder-api @csweichel @geropl
+/components/image-builder-bob @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/image-builder-mk3 @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/installation-telemetry @gitpod-io/engineering-self-hosted
+/components/licensor @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/local-app-api @csweichel @akosyakov
+/components/local-app @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/components/openvsx-proxy @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/components/proxy @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/registry-facade-api @csweichel @aledbf
+/components/registry-facade @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/server @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/service-waiter @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/supervisor-api @csweichel @akosyakov
+/components/supervisor @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/components/workspacekit @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/ws-daemon-api @csweichel @aledbf
+/components/ws-daemon @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/ws-manager-api @csweichel @aledbf
+/components/ws-manager-bridge-api @csweichel @geropl
+/components/ws-manager-bridge @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/components/ws-manager @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/components/ws-proxy @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/dev/gpctl @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/dev/loadgen @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer @gitpod-io/engineering-self-hosted
+/installer/pkg/components/agent-smith @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/blobserve @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/components-webapp @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/installer/pkg/components/components-workspace @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/content-service @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/dashboard @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/installer/pkg/components/ide-proxy @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/installer/pkg/components/image-builder-mk3 @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/openvsx-proxy @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/installer/pkg/components/proxy @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/installer/pkg/components/registry-facade @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/server @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/installer/pkg/components/server/ide @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/installer/pkg/components/workspace @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/workspace/ide @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/installer/pkg/components/ws-daemon @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/ws-manager-bridge @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/installer/pkg/components/ws-manager @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/components/ws-proxy @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/installer/pkg/config/versions @gitpod-io/engineering-ide @gitpod-io/engineering-ide @gitpod-io/engineering-ide @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/operations/observability/mixins @gitpod-io/platform
+/operations/observability/mixins/IDE @gitpod-io/engineering-ide
+/operations/observability/mixins/meta @gitpod-io/engineering-webapp
+/operations/observability/mixins/workspace @gitpod-io/engineering-workspace
+/.werft/observability @gitpod-io/platform
+
+#
+# Automation
+# The following files are updated automatically so we don't want to have a specific code-owner
+# A single review is enough. Usually the review will be done by RoboQuat but we don't want to add
+# that user as an owner in case we need to manually approve changes
+#
+/CHANGELOG.md