Wrong order of the standard github locations

[joh-klein]

If I interpret this line correctly you are looking for the CODEOWNERS file in this order

1. /CODEOWNERS
2. /.github/CODEOWNERS
3. /docs/CODEOWNERS

But the official documentation says otherwise:

To use a CODEOWNERS file, create a new file called CODEOWNERS in the .github/, root, or docs/ directory of the repository, in the branch where you'd like to add the code owners. If CODEOWNERS files exist in more than one of those locations, GitHub will search for them in that order and use the first one it finds.

Which means the order should be

1. /.github/CODEOWNERS
2. /CODEOWNERS
3. /docs/CODEOWNERS

(no idea, how gitlab does it – sorry)

[joh-klein]

I just found the order gitlab is using to look up the CODEOWNERS file:

1. /CODEOWNERS
2. /docs/CODEOWNERS
3. /.gitlab/CODEOWNERS