Tag app authors in PRs to their apps

[bobrippling]

As seen in #3932, it can take a bit of research to find the author of an app. This PR adds a CODEOWNERS file so owners can add themselves to be notified of PRs which might need their review.

I've added a few people who I could programatically glean from the git history

[bobrippling]

@gfwilliams @thyttan what do you think?

[bobrippling]

Seems it can only include people with write access. Maybe we have a script parse this file to tag those without write access?

[gfwilliams]

In theory it's good to have a common place, but having to look apps up in one text file seems almost as hard as clicking the GitHub icon next to an app and looking at the history?

Could this be a new field in the metadata file? Npm uses "author". The app loader could easily pick it up then?

[bobrippling]

Yes, the problem with git history is there's a lot of commits by non-owners of the app, so a lookup isn't always trivial and my goal is to see if we can get a script to automatically tag the owner. An author field sounds good, more localised too!

We could try out this setup I've changed to

[thyttan]

In my head the word owner rings a little bad in this open source context. Author sounds better to me. But maybe that's just me bikeshedding 🙃

[bobrippling]

Agreed!

[gfwilliams]

This looks good - looks like the mention-app-authors thing fails though - maybe due to excessive requests? https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps/actions/runs/16239627985/job/45854268885?pr=3935

Might be easier to just run it manually and add it to the PR that way?

Please can you also add a mention in the README on the format? https://github.com/espruino/BangleApps?tab=readme-ov-file#metadatajson-format

And the tutorial is going to need changing too: https://github.com/espruino/EspruinoDocs/blob/master/tutorials/Bangle.js%20App%20Loader.md#adding-your-app

You're probably not going to like this, but do you think you'd be able to insert the author field in a different place in the JSON? Maybe after version? Having it right at the bottom looks a bit odd, and as we're doing it automatically it's probably not that bad compared to fixing it on almost 800 apps afterwards

[bobrippling]

Yeah I need to debug that 403, I'll get it working then sort out the surrounding bits - good catches