How GitHub gave every repository a durable owner

Global Science Sat, 11 Jul 2026 16:27:04 GMT Moderate confidence — 64/100

GitHub has over 14,000 repositories across our primary internal GitHub organization.
As of early 2025, there were over 11,000 non-archived repositories, the vast majority of which with no clear owner.
For repositories attached to production services, we have historically had robust durable ownership, but for repositories with no associated service, there was no reliable way to tell who the owner is.

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GitHub has over 14,000 repositories across our primary internal GitHub organization.
As of early 2025, there were over 11,000 non-archived repositories, the vast majority of which with no clear owner.
For repositories attached to production services, we have historically had robust durable ownership, but for repositories with no associated service, there was no reliable way to tell who the owner is.

Sources: Github