use a github org?

[splitbrain]

When this tool was first created, github organizations did not exist, thus a normal account was created. I wonder if it would make sense to to convert it into an organization. I think it would make administration easier. We could also globally disable the running of actions for the forked repos...

I don't know if there are any big differences in the API implementation, I would think not. Let me know what you think.

[Klap-in]

My first understanding is that an organisation can not commit submitted translations (on behalf of an submitter). And do a pull request. (I guess they assume real persons are behind these actions).

So probably we need still a GitHub user account for committing and pull requests? It means, we keep the burden of sharing its authentication details between us(the maintainers).

Probably we can replace the account that is used to clone the repositories into. This makes it easier for you and me to delete old or broken repositories from it.

Not sure what https://github.com/KnpLabs/php-github-api library can handle, but probably it assumes a user and not an organisation? Probably fine to let it clone into an organisation by an user triggering these actions. There I see no issues.

Can you see if an organisation still uses the "Personal access tokens > Tokens(classic)."?
https://github.com/dokuwiki/translate.dokuwiki.org/wiki/Git-interaction#tokens-for-access-the-services-user-account
If we have a user account for committing etc, then such personal acccess token for the organisation is not needed as our user dokuwiki-translate user account get the permissions granted.

Just converting the user account to an organisation means that we loss the association to the former user account dokuwiki-translate. So seems better to create a new organisation, that is named different. (or rename the useraccount first).
https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/setting-up-and-managing-your-personal-account-on-github/managing-your-personal-account/converting-a-user-into-an-organization

So my summary is now: Having an organisation makes it easier to cleanup old or broken repositories? but the user account is then still needed for committing? Could already be worth the hassle.