Procedures Removing an organization owner

The GitHub Role Change

Removing an organization owner can be tricky - if you "just do it", the individual becomes an admin of every repository, public and private. That may not be what you want.

NOTE: Order is important. If you simply transition them from an 'owner' to a 'outside contributor', they retain all rights they had before. I.e. they will be an explicit admin of every repository!

1. Browse to https://github.com/orgs/:your_org/people?query=role%3Aowner
2. Find the user that you'd like to remove from the org
3. Change their role from Owner to Member
4. Click the Manage access gear for the user
5. Click Convert to outside collaborator or Remove from organization depending on the effect you want

Other adjustments that may be needed:

• If the owner should continue to be a team maintainer, they need to have that permission added to each team.
• If you are in an "old style" organization, the user may need to be added to additional teams.

The mailman mailing list change

Remove the user from the github-owners mailing list