Ability to reference Groups as Maintainers or Developers from CODEOWNERS

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Release notes

CODEOWNERS files can now reference specific groups of people assigned to a role, such as Maintainers, Developers, or any custom roles that have been created.

Problem to solve

Currently to reference multiple groups in the CODEOWNERS file you need to manually list them all, however if the list of groups aligns with one of the repository roles it would be simpler to just reference that role.

Example: Instead of

* @awsome_group @another_awesome_group

Just write:

* @@maintainers

This way you don't duplicate the config. And don't need to remember to update all of the CODEOWNERS files every time you add a group to the repository with the given role.