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+* paul.pickhardt@sap.com christian.lehmann02@sap.com
+# Allow cortex maintainers to self-approve cortex workflows inside .github/
+.github/ arno.uhlig@sap.com julius.clausnitzer@sap.com malte.viering@sap.com marcel.gute@sap.com markus.wieland@sap.com p.matthes@sap.com