Google Codebase Anecdote: Jeff Dean Among the Few Top-Level OWNERS
peterjliu · x · 2026-08-06
A former Google engineer recalls getting a "Jeff Dean number 1" when Jeff Dean personally reviewed an obscure stats package CL.
The engineer notes that there were only a handful of top-level OWNERS in Google's core repository with the power to approve any merge, with Jeff Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat being two of them.
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