When opening a PR on https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo for a package that is maintained by a project (e.g. Project:Base), gentoo-bot will reply with a comment that says that pull request has been assigned to e.g. @gentoo/base-system, that is supposed to be the name of a team in the https://github.com/gentoo github organisation. However regular users have no way to tell that gentoo-bot pinged the members of the team on github because they see "@gentoo/base-system" as plain text. I found this very confusing. It would be nice if at least the visibilty of the names of the teams of the github organisation that can be mentioned by gentoo-bot could be made public to allow users to easily tell that someone on github has been pinged for the PR. Reproduce by opening https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/38955 in an incognito/private browser window to see what a regular user that doesn't have permissions to see the github teams sees. o/ emanuele6
Any clue how to change that? All our teams are marked as "visible" (i.e. public).
(In reply to Michał Górny from comment #1) > Any clue how to change that? All our teams are marked as "visible" (i.e. > public). I assumed it would be a possible thing to do. I have just checked the github documentation to try figure out how to do it, but it appears it's just impossible: > Teams can be visible or secret: > > * Visible teams can be viewed and @mentioned by every organization > member. > * Secret teams are only visible to the people on the team and people > with owner permissions. They're great for hiding teams with > sensitive names or members, such as those used for working with > external partners or clients. Secret teams cannot be nested under > parent teams or have child teams. > > People who are not members of the organization cannot view any teams. There is no way to make teams visible to outsiders of the organisation unfortunately. :-( o/ emanuele6
I forgot to post a link to the documentation with the quote in the previous message: https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/changing-team-visibility o/ emanuele6
