Contributors and permissions (GitHub roles)

Long term contributors may be given roles that allow more direct access to make changes to project repositories. Tools like GitHub provide

Note that the terminology and references in here are GitHub specific, but other collaborative development platforms usually have equivalent features.

What you’ll learn

• How to organize permissions to make your team resilient to change. People come and people go, and you want to make sure that your project can survive these changes.
• How to use predefined permission sets on GitHub. GitHub has a number of predefined roles that you can assign to teams to give them different levels of access to your project or organization.