Working with outside collaborators can add more work for a repository owner. You need to confirm who still needs access, change permissions as projects evolve, and archive repositories once they’ve served their purpose.
Official announcementGitHub BlogGreg Mohler
Staying Evergreen: How we automated secure access and repo hygiene in a shared org
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To keep up, repository owners need to track collaborators, deadlines, and follow-ups for each repository. As a project grows, that manual housekeeping becomes harder to keep up with and easier to defer.
We faced this problem in a shared organization where GitHub employees (“Hubbers”) collaborate with customers and partners on product trials and professional services engagements. Our answer was Evergreen, a GitHub App built with native GitHub features. The workflows below exhibit a pattern you can adapt for your own organization.
Meet Evergreen
Evergreen is a GitHub App that automates organization hygiene through two workflows:
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