Idea for new lint check: missing META.yml for new top-level directory

[zcorpan]

Related to #5915

It'd be nice if new top-level directories have OWNERS files from the start when they are created (or subdirectory of css/).

cc @gsnedders

[zcorpan]

@gsnedders says

it'd have to be a lint_all_files check

[gsnedders]

@foolip @Hexcles this seems like it would be awkward for people introducing new directories through the Blink sync, as OWNERS files aren't sync'd (given normal Chromium OWNERS files are present in the Chromium tree)

[Hexcles]

You are right. We don't sync OWNERS files.

If we want to add a wpt lint for this, we may need a command-line flag to turn it off, which should be useful to us and perhaps others as well.

[zcorpan]

That may solve itself when we rename OWNERS to NOTIFY.

[foolip]

OWNERS have been renamed to META.yml and those are imported into Blink, so the lint problem is gone.

[foolip]

@zcorpan is this something you're planning to tackle? It looks like I end up adding them more often that I'd like:

• Add signed-exchange/META.yml (suggested reviewers) #13791
• [storage-access-api] create META.yml #19729
• Add compression/META.yml #19860

[zcorpan]

I can try to fit this in as part of the review velocity work.