Disregarding our "catch all" owners (ENG_REVIEW_OWNERS in the root, thakis in third_party, API_OWNERS in blink), there are some pieces of the code without any active code owner at all. Here "active" is defined as "having done a review in the Chromium repo the last 14 months".
Using a script [1] and some performance optimizations in the owners system [2] and removal of the reviewers mentioned above I got this list of code without any active owner:
=== Files/dirs with 0 active (14 months) owners ===
third_party/cld_3 ''
third_party/gestures ''
third_party/libevdev ''
third_party/pexpect ''
third_party/rnnoise ''
third_party/usrsctp ''
third_party/wds ''
Furthermore there are some 30 pieces of code (also mostly in third_party) which has a single active owner and is at risk:
=== Files/dirs with 1 active (14 months) owners ===
codereview.settings 'agable@chr'
content/public/android/java/src/org/chromium/IsReadyToPayService.aidl 'palmer@chr'
content/public/android/java/src/org/chromium/IsReadyToPayServiceCallback.aidl 'palmer@chr'
content/public/android/java/src/org/chromium/payments_common.aidl 'palmer@chr'
google_apis 'rogerta@chr'
third_party/accessibility-audit 'aboxhall@chr'
third_party/android_media 'mlamouri@chr'
third_party/android_opengl 'dtrainor@chr'
third_party/android_protobuf 'nyquist@chr'
third_party/android_swipe_refresh 'tedchoc@chr'
third_party/ashmem 'digit@chr'
third_party/blanketjs 'jamiewalch@chr'
third_party/blink/renderer/README.md 'haraken@chr'
third_party/devscripts 'thestig@chr'
third_party/espresso 'jbudorick@chr'
third_party/fips181 'wfh@chr'
third_party/gif_player 'tedchoc@chr'
third_party/gvr-android-keyboard 'vollick@chr'
third_party/iccjpeg 'fbarchard@chr'
third_party/jsoncpp 'sbc@chr'
third_party/junit 'jbudorick@chr'
third_party/libpng 'scroggo@chr'
third_party/markdown 'rockot@goo'
third_party/mocha 'michaelpg@chr'
third_party/mockito 'jbudorick@chr'
third_party/motemplate 'rockot@goo'
third_party/openh264 'hbos@chr'
third_party/pymock 'sbc@chr'
third_party/qunit 'jamiewalch@chr'
third_party/requests 'jbudorick@chr'
third_party/simplejson 'rockot@goo'
third_party/sinonjs 'jamiewalch@chr'
third_party/spirv-headers 'dsinclair@chr'
third_party/usb_ids 'reillyg@chr'
third_party/visualmetrics 'nyquist@chr'
third_party/xstream 'yolandyan@chr'
third_party/yasm 'dalecurtis@chr'
Full output including code with only 2 owners, and a list of inactive code owners owning much code can be found in elsewhere. [3]
I don't know if all of the seemingly inactive code owners actually are inactive. Maybe there just hasn't been anything for them to review the last 14 months. Though 14 months is a pretty long time. A shorter time grows the list a bit but not much.
[1] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/tools/depot_tools/+/1406693/1/owner_stats.py
[2] https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/tools/depot_tools/+/1404172
[3] https://pastebin.com/F4bhwvSG
Comment 1 by vabr@chromium.org
, Jan 11