Manage rust-lang/rust in team repository

[jdno]

The rust-lang/team repository provides a sustainable way to manage permissions for repositories on GitHub. The rust-lang/rust repository hasn't been added yet, because a large amount of teams and collaborators have access to it. Configuring the repository in the teams repo thus requires careful testing to avoid breaking any integrations or workflows.

Managing permissions by hand is tedious and error-prone, especially when it comes to removing access (which is often forgotten). We therefore want to manage the repository automatically.

This work needs to be done by an administrator who can run the sync-team locally and iterate on the configuration until it applies without breaking changes.

Resources

• Discussion on Zulip about rust-lang/rust missing in teams repo

[Kobzol]

Can you list the sync-team missing features here? Or is it really impossible for a non-administrator to help with this? 😅

[jdno]

I can document them here. 👍 But I think it's unrealistic for anyone without access to the GitHub API to work on them, since it will be impossible to properly test the implementation.

[Mark-Simulacrum]

But you can probably do so against a fake org you create, unlike the AWS stuff this is usually easier to spin up.

[Kobzol]

Yeah I was thinking that I could just do this against a different GH org.