try to be smarter about code owners/approvals

[kmontemayor2-sc]

Scope of work done

Where is the documentation for this feature?: N/A

Did you add automated tests or write a test plan?

Updated Changelog.md? NO

Ready for code review?: NO

[svij-sc]

Id refrain from non CODEOWNERs based checks generally as they are susceptible to race conditions, and there are probably a ton of ways we can find to game around them.