Migrating admin teams to improved organization permissions

If your organization was created after September 2015, your organization has improved organization permissions by default. Organizations created before September 2015 may need to migrate older Owners and Admin teams to the improved permissions model. Members of legacy admin teams automatically retain the ability to create repositories until those teams are migrated to the improved organization permissions model.

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About migrations for legacy admin teams

By default, all organization members can create repositories. If you restrict repository creation permissions to organization owners, and your organization was created under the legacy organization permissions structure, members of legacy admin teams will still be able to create repositories.

Legacy admin teams are teams that were created with the admin permission level under the legacy organization permissions structure. Members of these teams were able to create repositories for the organization, and we've preserved this ability in the improved organization permissions structure.

You can remove this ability by migrating your legacy admin teams to the improved organization permissions.

For more information, see "Repository roles for an organization."

Warning: If your organization has disabled repository creation permissions for all members, some members of legacy admin teams may lose repository creation permissions. If your organization has enabled member repository creation, migrating legacy admin teams to improved organization permissions will not affect team members' ability to create repositories.

Migrating all of your organization's legacy admin teams

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.
  2. Next to the organization, click Settings.
  3. In the "Access" section of the sidebar, click Team discussions.
  4. Review your organization's legacy admin teams, then click Migrate all teams.
  5. Read the information about possible permissions changes for members of these teams, then click Migrate all teams.

Migrating a single admin team

  1. In the upper-right corner of GitHub, select your profile photo, then click Your organizations.

  2. Click the name of your organization.

  3. Under your organization name, click Teams.

    Screenshot of the horizontal navigation bar for an organization. A tab, labeled with the people icon and "Teams," is outlined in dark orange.

  4. Click the name of the team.

  5. In the team description box, click Migrate team.