Avoid error logging when parsing optional sections in codeowners file

[daniel-mohedano]

What Does This Do

• Improves codeowners file parsing to consider ^[... as section headers, which define optional sections in Gitlab. This avoids logging an error when parsing the line.

Additional Notes

test-environment-trigger: skip

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Jira ticket: [PROJ-IDENT]

[datadog-prod-us1-5]

More details

PR correctly fixes GitLab CODEOWNERS optional section parsing by recognizing ^[...] headers. Synthetic validation confirms all scenarios work: new optional sections are skipped, regular patterns parse correctly, bounds are safe, and no regressions detected.

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🟢 Java Benchmark SLOs — All performance SLOs passed

Suite	Status
Startup	🟢 pass

SLO thresholds are defined here based on automatically generated metrics. A warning is raised when results are within 5% of the threshold.

PR vs. master results

Scenario	Candidate	master	Δ (95% CI of mean)
startup:insecure-bank:iast:Agent	13.95 s	14.00 s	[-1.0%; +0.4%] (no difference)
startup:insecure-bank:tracing:Agent	12.88 s	12.93 s	[-1.1%; +0.2%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:appsec:Agent	16.93 s	16.64 s	[+0.7%; +2.7%] (maybe worse)
startup:petclinic:iast:Agent	16.84 s	16.85 s	[-1.0%; +0.8%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:profiling:Agent	16.73 s	16.78 s	[-1.6%; +1.1%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:sca:Agent	16.29 s	16.58 s	[-6.1%; +2.6%] (no difference)
startup:petclinic:tracing:Agent	16.04 s	16.08 s	[-1.2%; +0.6%] (no difference)

Commit: ce5947cd · CI Pipeline · Benchmarking Platform UI

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[daniel-mohedano]

/merge

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