Over time, the number of repositories for a team or organization will continue to grow. Below are a few methods that can be used to keep things organized and increase “discoverability”.
Using Topics
Topics are free-form data that can be added to any repository by anyone with administrator permissions to that repository. They appear in the “about” section and can be used in Github’s search, including via limiting the search to a particular organization.
For example, the below search was done using org:Tufts-University topic:testing and results in a search url that can be used in other documentation:
Using topics will increase the “discoverability” of your repositories, and if your visibility is set to public, this means that others on the internet outside of Tufts University might discover your repository and its contents. Please ensure that this is desired behavior or set your repository visibility to internal or private. See: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/managing-repository-settings/setting-repository-visibility
For more information, see Github’s documentation: https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/classifying-your-repository-with-topics
Screenshot from github’s documentation:
