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+# This repository is owned by the Rancher UI team.
+#
+# Owners are deliberately NOT declared here.
+#
+# The canonical list of Rancher UI repositories and their owning teams lives in:
+#   https://github.com/rancher/dashboard/blob/master/.github/OWNERS.md
+#
+# To find out who to contact about this repository, see that file.