Q: How to get special repositories out of the normal repo lists.

[bradlitterell]

Github orgs have special repositories, like .github & templates. They are obviously useful, but are noisy and may be extra-private (like the cla-signatures repository).

I'd like to make them invisible from normal members. Mostly as convenience to get them out of the usual/frequently used lists, but also the signatures have everyone's github alias in it which is, I think, not great to expose to every member as a json file for privacy reasons. (Sure, someone could probably scrape the team, but at least it's an extra inconvenience.)

I think there are two options...

1. Change the default member access for repos to public - i.e. they see no private repos by default, and every private repo will need to explicitly add the default member access setting to read or write. Or...

2. I don't know, that's the question...

[bradlitterell]

(and option 1 still means the special, but infrequently used repos still show up in admin's consoles everywhere...)

[bradlitterell]

Currently using option 1, so most members only see 5 repos. Admins still see the rest of the noise.

• .github (seems to be required to be public for non-members to see the welcome page). (unlike github private where members can still see the members welcome page. Github Bug?)
• governance
• media
• project-wide-discussions
• tpm-rs

[bradlitterell]

no apparent improvement possible