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When you leave employment at Google do you typically retain your github account and contribution rights to the repo?

• cmrdporcupine 4y ago
  Most people I think just use their personal github but join the Google org. And then you get booted from it when you quit. Commit rights, I'm actually not clear on, but by default I think you'd lose rights. I believe there's likely a process for keeping them,, but I don't recall what it is. The one repo I contributed to that followed this process was essentially abandoned long before I left Google.
  • afandian 4y ago
    Thanks, that's interesting. Is any production Google code written this way, or is it only Google-adjacent open source?
    • cmrdporcupine 4y ago
      There are definitely things under the google github org that are used in production, though they are typically mirrored from Google3 in some way. But not sure what, if any, has its origins in a personal open source projects.
    • zem 4y ago
      i work on https://github.com/google/pytype https://github.com/google/pytype which is largely developed internally and then pushed to github every few days. the github commits are associated with the team's personal github accounts. pytype is not an "official google product" insofar as the open source version is presented as is without official google support, but it is "production code" in the sense that it is very much used extensively within google.