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> On 4 Jun 2025, at 12:21, Yoann Rodiere via hibernate-dev > <hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > As part of the move to Commonhaus, I'm currently going through our GitHub > setup, and I'm noticing we have a lot of users with extensive (and I mean > *extensive*, sometimes admin or even owner) access to our > organization/repositories, but who are no longer regular contributors. > > Additionally, we also have organization members on GitHub who are not > technically Hibernate members: they have never actually contributed to > Hibernate, but are there for technical reasons, for example because they're > coworkers who helped out with some infrastructure issue. > > While it's fine in principle, because we trust these people, it's very, > very far from security best practices. Account hacking happens, email > addresses get stolen, and the people using these GitHub accounts might one > day be an attacker instead of the person we trust. > > According to Commonhaus' automated report, we're currently at 32 people > having admin rights on one Hibernate repository or another. Which I think > we can all agree is much more than necessary. > > For that reason, I'd like to propose that: > > 1. *We create an "Alumni" team in our GitHub organization*, moving to that > team anyone who is actually a member, but hasn't contributed for... let's > say 2 years? Of course this isn't a permanent thing, and we can simply move > alumni back to the relevant team if they become active again. > 2. *We move non-members out of our GitHub organization*, or to "external > collaborators" (that's a GitHub feature) if still necessary. > 3. *We schedule yearly audits of our GitHub configuration* to review access > rights again in the future, and move people to the Alumni team as necessary. > > Note moving people in and out of teams will get them notified, so I would > send another email directly to impacted people before/during the move, to > avoid this being seen as personal/insulting. It's really not. > > *Thoughts, opinions, +1s?* > > Yoann Rodière > Hibernate team > _______________________________________________ > hibernate-dev mailing list -- hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org > To unsubscribe send an email to hibernate-dev-le...@lists.jboss.org > Privacy Statement: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/privacy-policy > List Archives: > https://lists.jboss.org/archives/list/hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org/message/UESVB3PYJ43BN72KI7XV5PCSTPWXPWTI/ _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list -- hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org To unsubscribe send an email to hibernate-dev-le...@lists.jboss.org Privacy Statement: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/privacy-policy List Archives: https://lists.jboss.org/archives/list/hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org/message/FZMKYP6BNGRSGUEFDBR4PL2ISAEOAXNI/
