Upcoming GitHub Permissions Changes

[Pierce, Daniel Lewis]

Greetings Samvera contributors,

The Samvera GitHub Processes and Permissions Working Group is in the process of refining user permissions within the Samvera GitHub organization. Our goal is to have a small core group of active community and technical leaders with expanded permissions to handle membership management, while the rest of the Samvera community retains standard repository level permissions. As such, your effective permissions within the Samvera, Samvera-Deprecated and Samvera-Labs GitHub organizations may change. More details are available in the Samvera Wiki. If you feel you will not have sufficient permissions to continue your work, please reach out to the working group on Slack in the #github-processes-and-permissions-wg channel. We expect to make these changes on Jan 27, 2026.

We are also working on implementing trusted publishing of Samvera Ruby gems via GitHub Actions with the goal of reducing the number of owners associated with each gem, and to provide provenance for the built gems. This will be implemented gradually at a later date as time allows.

Daniel Pierce & Chris Colvard

Samvera GitHub Processes and Permissions Working Group