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This PR adds new policies regarding:

  • repository administration and membership
  • roles and responsabilities of repository and organisation administrators

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chrisb13 and others added 3 commits February 10, 2026 09:22
As discussed with  @ccarouge @aidanheerdegen this afternoon, this text is currently misleading as a mixed approach is being used where eventually the plan is to move to a per repository access basis. Perhaps text like I've suggested could be used eventually? 

Alternatively, can this text please be updated to reflect the current suggested approach? Have admins of all the current organisation's repos been informed of the change / update of the READMEs as appropriate?
Co-authored-by: Micael Oliveira <micael.oliveira@anu.edu.au>
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Dear all, I'm tagging you in this PR because you are listed as being an administrator of one or more repositories in the ACCESS-Community-Hub organisation and Github does not provide any better way of contacting people. At the end of this month ACCESS-NRI will be enforcing new policies regarding the repositories in this organisation. You can read all the details here. One important change that I want to draw your attention to is this one:

  • No special access is granted at the organisation level to members. This means that organisation members:
    • cannot write to repositories unless they have been granted explicit write access at the repository level or are part of a team that has such permissions
    • cannot read private repositories unless they have been granted explicit read access at the repository level or are part of a team that has such permissions.

This means that your collaborators will lose write access to any repositories that they are not direct members when this change is implemented. Therefore, I recommend you check that every person that needs write access is a direct member of the repository and, if they are not, please add them.

Let me know if you have any questions.

ACCESS-NRI retains formal administrative control of this organisation and will grant access to Community
members who wish to contribute.
ACCESS-NRI retains formal administrative control of this organisation. Access is
given to ACCESS-NRI staff and community members who wish to contribute. The

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Please see comment here:
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regarding a consistent approach.

Community members who wish to host a repository in this organisation should read
our [repository administration policy](https://github.com/ACCESS-Community-Hub/.github/README.md) and create a new
[issue](https://github.com/ACCESS-Community-Hub/.github/issues/new/choose)
requesting the creation of a new repository.

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Please see comment here:
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regarding a template licence. Or maybe it depends on the content of the repo'?

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