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+#Note that despite github calling these "owners", a better term would be "alerts"
+#Everything in the cataclysm repository remains under a creative commons license, nobody owns the mods.
+#In fact, the code "owners" designation is meant to encourage third party
+#individuals to contribute to the mod, with the maintainers notified for reviews.
+
+/data/mods/Aftershock/ @Malecypse @John-Candlebury
+/data/mods/DinoMod/ @damien @ethankaminski @LyleSY
+/data/mods/Graphical_Overmap/ @Kilvoctu @Larwck
+/data/mods/MMA/ @Hymore246
+/data/mods/No_Fungi/ @I-am-Erk
+/data/mods/blazemod/ @SouP
+/data/mods/classic_zombies/ @I-am-Erk
+/data/mods/crt_expansion/ @Soupster89
+/data/mods/desertpack/ @davidpwbrown 
+/data/mods/generic_guns/ @tenmillimaster
+/data/mods/magiclysm/ @KorGgenT
+/data/mods/my_sweet_cataclysm/ @Fris0uman
+/data/mods/ruralbiome/ @I-am-Erk
+/data/mods/speedydex/ @KorGgenT
+/data/mods/stats_through_kills/ @KorGgenT
+
+magic*.cpp @KorGgenT
+magic*.h @KorGgenT
+/data/json/itemgroups/SUS/ @I-am-Erk
+/data/json/npcs/refugee_center/ @I-am-Erk
+/data/json/npcs/Backgrounds/ @I-am-Erk
+/data/json/snippets/ @I-am-Erk
+/gfx/ @I-am-Erk