Did this repo's collaborators get invited to administer my test repo?

[nate-double-u]

I created a new repo using the "Use this template" button to test its behaviour -- I was looking to see how it managed commit history (it looks like it squashes it into 1 'initial commit') -- and I noticed that the .github/settings.yml file is copied over.

Did the collaborators in the settings.yml get an invitation to administer the newly created nate-double-u/testing2 repo?

If so, is this the behaviour we want?

[chalin]

I created a new repo using the "Use this template" button to test its behaviour -- I was looking to see how it managed commit history (it looks like it squashes it into 1 'initial commit') -- and

Thanks for testing that out.

I noticed that the .github/settings.yml file is copied over.

Oh! Then we'll probably need to be more selective about what we add to that file.

Did the collaborators in the settings.yml get an invitation to administer the newly created nate-double-u/testing2 repo?

I did not, but I don't appear to be an admin for your test repo

If so, is this the behaviour we want?

Having a base settings.yml file to seed certain settings makes sense, but based on what you've discovered, we'll want to remove the collaborators section -- and fall back to using the web UI for that. (My 2 cents)

[nate-double-u]

I created a new repo using the "Use this template" button to test its behaviour -- I was looking to see how it managed commit history (it looks like it squashes it into 1 'initial commit') -- and

Thanks for testing that out.

Once #86 is merged in I'll run another test to see how the settings file works with labels.

I noticed that the .github/settings.yml file is copied over.

Oh! Then we'll probably need to be more selective about what we add to that file.

+1 (our website checklist maybe a good start for a guide for what should be in here)

Did the collaborators in the settings.yml get an invitation to administer the newly created nate-double-u/testing2 repo?

I did not, but I don't appear to be an admin for your test repo

Ya, I checked the settings in the GitHub UI and saw no one else was added automatically, but I was curious if GitHub had sent out emails inviting collaborators in the list. I'm curious when it would be activated -- first change to the file perhaps?

If so, is this the behaviour we want?

Having a base settings.yml file to seed certain settings makes sense, but based on what you've discovered, we'll want to remove the collaborators section -- and fall back to using the web UI for that. (My 2 cents)

The behavior of the .github/settings.yml file isn't well documented with template repos (and searching on it has been a bit hard - lot of results for "issue templates." I think we need to do some more testing to help us decide what we want and don't want in the settings file. (Once we figure it out, it may be worth writing it up somewhere too)

https://probot.github.io/apps/settings/

I think that my nate-double-u org didn't have the app installed when I cloned the repo using the "Use this template" button, but subsequently I have turned it on, and haven't noticed any changes in the settings.