Migration to organization

[Neustradamus]

Dear @linuxhw team, @lvc (Andrey Ponomarenko),

It is possible to migrate the personal account to organization?

Your project can not have a personal account but an organization and it is free.

You must to respect GitHub TOS:

• https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/github-terms/github-terms-of-service#3-account-requirements

You have two possibilities:

• Converting
• Rename / Create an organization / Transfer repositories (no lost, redirections are here)

Like you have already one good personal account, it is better to convert.

Important to know, there is no lost, and GitHub adds redirections after a transfer, for example:

• https://github.com/libreswan has been converted
• https://github.com/exiftool has been converted
• https://github.com/redorescue has been converted
• https://github.com/nerzhul/ocsms -> https://github.com/nextcloud/ocsms
• https://github.com/tigaseinc/tigase-server -> https://github.com/tigase/tigase-server
• https://github.com/boothj5/profanity -> https://github.com/profanity-im/profanity
• https://github.com/asciimoo/searx -> https://github.com/searx/searx

Thanks in advance.

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Converting:

• https://help.github.com/articles/converting-a-user-into-an-organization/

It is possible to rename this account and create the organization and move/transfer the repository to the organization.

Rename account:

• https://docs.github.com/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-user-account-settings/changing-your-github-username

Create an organization:

• https://help.github.com/en/github/setting-up-and-managing-organizations-and-teams/creating-a-new-organization-from-scratch

Transfer a repository:

• https://help.github.com/en/github/administering-a-repository/transferring-a-repository

Like:

• http://github.com/gnome
• http://github.com/kde
• ...

[deathzombee]

Is this an issue, or response to their inquiry? Organizations function identically if using GitHub purely as a repository, and issue tracker host. If that is all they use then not much would be gained. The major benefit I see is if interested in setting team roles, and project planning, setting targets and goals. Essentially the more structure you assign through the git host the less distributed your open source projects development.

[Neustradamus]

A project can not have a personal account but an organization.
It is in GitHub TOS.