codeowner
nounUK /ˈkəʊdˌəʊnə/
US /ˈkoʊdˌoʊnər/
A codeowner is a person who is in charge of a piece of computer code and decides how it should change.
Before you edit that file, ask the codeowner for permission.
OTHER MEANINGS
2. In software platforms, a person or team listed in a CODEOWNERS file who is automatically asked to review changes to certain files.
The codeowner was notified as soon as the pull request touched the login module.
3. A person who legally owns the rights to a piece of software code.
The company is the codeowner of the app, even though many people wrote parts of it.
4. A team member responsible for keeping a section of a project's code clean and working.
As codeowner of the payments folder, she checks every change before it is merged.