docs: add codeowner responsibilities

README.md

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 - [Adding your module to IBM Cloud](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/onboard-ibm-cloud.md)
 - Maintaining the GitHub project
     - [Maintainers contribution process](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/maintain-module.md)
+    - [Code owners](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/codeowners.md)
     - [About merging pull requests](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/merging.md)
+    - [Renovate (Automated dependency updates)](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/renovate.md)
 - Reference
     - [Module authoring guidelines](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/implementation-guidelines.md)
     - [DA authoring guidelines](https://terraform-ibm-modules.github.io/documentation/#/da-implementation-guidelines.md)

docs/_sidebar.md

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 - [Adding your module to IBM Cloud](onboard-ibm-cloud.md)
 - Maintaining the GitHub project
     - [Maintainers contribution process](maintain-module.md)
+    - [Code owners](codeowners.md)
     - [About merging pull requests](merging.md)
+    - [Renovate (Automated dependency updates)](renovate.md)
 - Reference
     - [Module authoring guidelines](implementation-guidelines.md)
     - [DA authoring guidelines](da-implementation-guidelines.md)

docs/codeowners.md

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+# Code owners
+
+Every repository in the [terraform-ibm-modules](https://github.com/terraform-ibm-modules/) GitHub organization must have a primary and secondary code owner. Code owner responsibilities include maintaining the code base, participating in pull request reviews, and taking action on incoming GitHub issues.
+
+## How to add / update repository code owners?
+
+Code owners for a repository are stored in a file named `.github/CODEOWNERS`. The primary code owner should be listed first, followed by the secondary code owner. Below you will see the required format of the file where `primary-owner` and `secondary-owner` are the GitHub user names of the code owner users:
+
+```
+# Primary owner should be listed first in list of global owners, followed by any secondary owners
+*       @primary-owner @secondary-owner
+```
+
+It is also possible to break down the owners per directory. For example:
+
+```
+# Primary owner should be listed first in list of global owners, followed by any secondary owners
+*       @primary-owner @secondary-owner
+
+# Order is important; the last matching pattern takes the most precedence. When someone opens a
+# pull request that only modifies files in the below specified folders, only the listed owners
+# and not the global owners will be requested for a review.
+dev/ @dev-sre-user
+stage/ @stage-sre-user
+prod/ @prod-sre-user
+```
+
+For more information on the GitHub concept around code owners, see [About code owners](https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-code-owners).

docs/renovate.md

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+# Renovate
+
+An IBM internal [Renovate](https://docs.renovatebot.com/) pipeline is run frequently against the repositories in the [terraform-ibm-modules](https://github.com/terraform-ibm-modules/) GitHub organization which will create pull requests to keep dependency versions at the latest.
+
+Learn more about [How we use renovate to manage IaC dependencies](https://medium.com/@ocofaigh/how-we-use-renovate-to-manage-iac-dependencies-7584fb2ccc08).