You can now assign teams as the app managers of some or all of your organization’s GitHub Apps. The App Manager role has been converted to a standard organization role, which is now managed in the organization roles settings and APIs. Per-application app managers are still managed within the application registration, which now supports teams as app managers in addition to users.

As part of rebuilding the app manager role, existing organization-wide app managers have been assigned the new organization role. You can now find the list of organization app managers in the organization role assignments page and API, instead of the organization’s GitHub Apps settings page.

The App Manager role itself has not changed. It allows a user or team to see, edit, and delete one or all of the GitHub Apps owned by your organization. If assigned as an organization role, it also allows the recipient to create new GitHub Apps for the organization.

The permissions that make up the app manager role are not yet available for use in custom roles. In time they will be enabled for custom roles so you can allow users and teams to:

  • View all of the apps in an organization as an auditor.
  • Give everyone permission to create apps for your organization, so they don’t have to transfer them into the organization after creation.
  • Edit applications without the ability to delete them.

Our immediate next step will be allowing users to be assigned to individual enterprise-owned GitHub Apps as app managers, giving enterprise owners the ability to delegate the management of those apps. See the roadmap item for more details about that work.

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