Outside collaborators

An outside collaborator is a person who is not a member of your organization but has access to one or more of your organization’s repositories.

Note

Adding an outside collaborator to a private repository will consume one of your paid licenses!

Outside collaborators are not members of your organization. They don’t see internal repositories and they do not inherit base permissions.

You can’t invite outside collaborators at the organization level – you can only invite members to your organization and then convert them into outside collaborators, (see Figure 22.5):

Figure 22.5 – Converting members into outside collaborators

As a repository administrator, if you Add people under Settings | Collaborators and teams, if they already belong to the organization, they will be automatically added as members. If not, they will be added as outside collaborators.

Outside collaborators are a great way...