.github

Organisation-level GitHub configuration for the UCT Department of Electrical Engineering. This is a special repository: GitHub treats several of its files as organisation-wide defaults rather than as ordinary repository content.

What lives here

• profile/README.md is the public landing page shown on the organisation's Overview tab to anyone who visits. Edit this to change what the public sees.
• CONTRIBUTING.md is the default contributing guide. GitHub shows it automatically when someone opens an issue or pull request in any repository that does not supply its own.
• SECURITY.md, CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md and the issue and pull request templates in .github/ act as organisation-wide defaults in the same way. All are optional.

Any repository in the organisation can override a default simply by providing its own copy of the file.

What does not live here

This repository is public, so it must never contain anything sensitive or members-only.

• The members-facing landing page lives in the private .github-private repository, at profile/README.md. GitHub shows it to signed-in members under the "Member" view of the organisation profile.
• Internal policy and operational notes live in the private internal-docs repository.

Editing

Clone and edit like any other repository:

git clone https://github.com/uct-eee-department/.github.git

Changes to profile/README.md and to the default community health files take effect as soon as they are committed to the default branch. No release or deployment step is needed.

Maintainers

See the organisation profile for the current list of administrators.