Subject: [Ietf-and-github] GitHub Management

From: Jay Daley <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2021 12:34:43 +1300

Hi

RFC 8875 sets out a plan for how GitHub repositories should be managed and gives the Secretariat and Tools Team various tasks and responsibilities.  As it stands there are two issues with this.  One is the high administrative burden of multiple organisations and repositories.  The second is the limited access to features provided by the free tier, such as the Audit API, which are useful for tools integrations.

To address this we are in the process of taking up a GitHub Enterprise license.  An enterprise account gives the following features:

- access to the Audit API that let’s us pull records of everything for archiving
- allows the creation of unlimited organisations and public repositories under this account.  We can assign whoever we want to manage those without them requiring a license while the Secretariat remains an owner for when an admin change is needed.
- existing organisations can be included under this account if they choose to move to the account
- all the repositories under the account switch from having their own local licensing terms to central licensing terms, which will be https://trustee.ietf.org/license-for-open-source-repositories.html to comply with RFC 8875 (when that link is fixed)

This basically provides the features the Secretariat and Tools Team need to deliver RFC 8875.  It is also quite cheap as we can use the minimum 10 user license pack provided that we don’t do anything with private repositories, which would change the licensing dramatically.  

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Jay

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Jay Daley
IETF Executive Director
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