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HOW GITHUB GAVE EVERY REPOSITORY A DURABLE OWNER

github.blog9 min read

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GitHub had over 14,000 repositories across its primary internal GitHub organization. Less than half had clear ownership. This post discusses how GitHub gave every active repository a validated owner in under 45 days, archived the rest, and made ownership the foundation for everything that followed.