This ordeal made me think about a better way to manage dependancies in code - specifically, some system to keep track of WHO has special knowledge about a specific feature in our codebase.
At any given moment, I have a general idea of who is working on what, but I don't know who is working on what parts, i.e. Bob and Charlie might both be working on a billing system together, but I don't know which one of them is working on the DB models and which one is working on the Stripe API.
Git Blame is a theoretical solution to this problem, but it is only useful once I have isolated a bug to a specific point in the code. Ideally, I would like a Git Blame-like system at the repo level so that I (and my non-technical colleagues) can quickly track down which engineers are responsible for specific features in my codebase.
How do people manage this process in their organizations?
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