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Update xfer instructions: always requires an org admin's assistance
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This is a personal preference. If you have a large enough project or organization feel free. We suggest you use the strategies and recommendations here as a model to manage the details. | This is a personal preference. If you have a large enough project or organization feel free. We suggest you use the strategies and recommendations here as a model to manage the details. | ||
=== Forking vs | === Forking vs Transferring === | ||
'''Do not "fork" a repository into a Mozilla organization.''' Doing so gives ''every team in the org'' rights to it. | '''Do not "fork" a repository into a Mozilla organization.''' Doing so gives ''every team in the org'' rights to it. | ||
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# If you're not a member of any team, talk to an [[#contact|org admin]]. | # If you're not a member of any team, talk to an [[#contact|org admin]]. | ||
# Under the repo admin, transfer ownership to the Mozilla organization. If you don't see this option, return to step 1. | # Under the repo admin, transfer ownership to the Mozilla organization. If you don't see this option, return to step 1. | ||
# Choose which teams should be given | # Choose which teams should be given access. All chosen teams will have only 'read' access at this point. | ||
# Fork the repo from Mozilla (mozilla/myrepo) back to your account (recreating myuser/myrepo). While the transferred repo becomes the root of the network on Github (e.g. all forks are now forks of mozilla/myrepo) other users may be pointing to your repo by URL. | # Ask an [[#contact|org admin]] to grant team permissions higher than read ('write' and 'admin' are the other choices). (Team maintainers do not have the ability to change a repositories status.) | ||
# Fork the repo from Mozilla (mozilla/myrepo) back to your account (recreating myuser/myrepo). While the transferred repo becomes the root of the network on Github (e.g. all forks are now forks of mozilla/myrepo) other users may be pointing to your repo by URL. (Optional, github will redirect old URLs for transfers, but you probably want a local repo if you use the PR workflow.) | |||
=== Do I need to be an owner to create repositories? === | === Do I need to be an owner to create repositories? === | ||