Re: [boost] [Hana] Transferring repository to boostorg on GitHub

Subject: Re: [boost] [Hana] Transferring repository to boostorg on GitHub
From: Rene Rivera (grafikrobot_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-10-15 11:52:27

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:43 AM, Louis Dionne <ldionne.2_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> Rene Rivera <grafikrobot <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:14 AM, Rene Rivera <grafikrobot <at>
> gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > 1. Yes, get added as a member of Boostorg github organization.
> > >
> >
> > Forgot to say you do that by posting an issue here <
> > https://github.com/boostorg/admin/issues>.
>
> Thanks, seems like we're done with this already!
>
>
> > > 2. Give one of the boostorg owners admin rights to your hana repo.
> >
> > And you'll be able to see the owner list here <
> >
> https://github.com/orgs/boostorg/people?utf8=%E2%9C%93&query=role%3Aowner+
> >
>
> I don't have the option to give "admin rights" to my GitHub repository. All
> I see is that I can transfer ownership to someone else, or to an
> organization
> inside which I have admin rights. I can also add "collaborators", but that
> seems to only give push access.
>
> As documented here [1], the way to transfer from a user to an organization
> is
> to give temporary admin rights within the organization to the owner of the
> original repository, and then the original owner can move the repo's
> ownership
> to the new organization. Isn't it what we should do?
>

Right.. I always forget about this backwards way Github does this. OK.. You
should be able to transfer it now.

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