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Release codeowners

See merge request !833

Release packaging updates

See merge request !832

we now have two names for everything except lalinspiral, which I think is abandonware, essentially

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[skip ci]

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which auto-identifies reviewers for changes to a given file or directory

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accidentally forgot to do this for the 6.20.0 release

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