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Permissions aren't the problem. But the upstream source of all the forks is wrong if you take a repo private, all stars from folks outside your organization are
by xeraa 2y ago
Permissions aren't the problem. But the upstream source of all the forks is wrong if you take a repo private, all stars from folks outside your organization are gone,... So you need GitHub support to restore everything.
And the details how it happened are a bit different but it was a configuration error (making things too secure )
[I work for Elastic]
- luke-stanley 2y agoThis bears out the idea that the fastest way to get the truth on the Internet is to say something wrong first.
- xeraa 2y agoWell, it was a bad change. But we wouldn't want the wrong story make it worse. It was "just" an error in our configuration.
- luke-stanley 2y agoFair enough, and what I said was wrong too, so it's turtles all the way down! I butchered Cunningham’s Law, thank you for correcting me, though the name of the law is confusing since it was McGeady who pointed out: "The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not to ask a question, it’s to post the wrong answer.", which is what I did, and what the parent comment did, it is attributed to the great Ward Cunningham, creator of the first Wiki, who is a rightful dude. I have nerd-sniped myself on this. At least I'm less wrong now, thank you.