Agent WranglersENG-46Recommended
Hand flags to a new owner when people leave
Every flag owner in the register is a current member of the team. When a person leaves, their flags move to a named person in the same week.
How to do it
A flag without an owner stays forever, because nobody dares to remove it. Make flag handover a line in the leaving checklist, next to the account removal in Protect the accounts that can change the code. Name a person as owner, not a team, so one person gets the reminder. The flag register holds the owner field.
How to check
A build step compares every owner in the flag register with the current team list, such as the code owners file. It fails on an owner missing from it.
Related rules
- ENG-20 Protect the accounts that can change the code in Engineering
- ENG-45 Keep every flag in one register in Engineering
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