GitHub Organizations

[Tom Allen]

I've been looking into using github in another context, and just discovered that there's a "GitHub Organizations" thing which manages multiple repositories under the one centralised organisation: https://github.com/blog/674-introducing-organizations

They're also free for open source, and would help new members see our past work too. Lots of other useful things like merged issue trackers, wikis, etc.

Tom

[Matthew Fernandez]

From this and the link that Billy sent through, I'm getting the
impression that people would prefer working in some kind of group repo
rather than pulling/pushing to people's personal repos. Is there a
compelling argument to switch to one of these given that we would all
have equal access to a repo?

[Tom Allen]

Just to clarify - people don't necessarily get equal access to the repo using Github Organizations. Everyone gets read-only access as per usual, but you still have to add push authority to an individual developer. Really the only thing it buys the group is a central place to see everything that's going on - I just happen to think this is probably a good thing.

[Matthew Fernandez]

On 5 August 2011 10:34, Tom Allen <t...@jugglethis.net> wrote:
> Just to clarify - people don't necessarily get equal access to the repo
> using Github Organizations. Everyone gets read-only access as per usual, but
> you still have to add push authority to an individual developer.

Yes. What I meant was that, in our case, all of us will have equal access.

> Really the
> only thing it buys the group is a central place to see everything that's
> going on - I just happen to think this is probably a good thing.

Yeah, I agree that's a good thing. I think I'm just being hesitant
because I'm reaching the limits of online identities and accounts I
can fit in my brain. From the description it seemed like there's a way
to convert an existing account to an organisation, but is there a way
to transfer ownership of a repo to an organisation? For that matter
can this be done in general (individual -> individual)?