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GitHub has an archived repositories feature to indicate and make unmaintained repositories read-only. You can pair this feature with an automated report that gives you a list of the inactive repositories that are in your organization. Check out that action on the GitHub Marketplace.

In order to archive a github organization repository:

  1. Edit the README to add a note:

    **NOTE**: _This repository is no longer supported or updated by <COMPANY_NAME>. If you wish to continue to develop this code yourself, we recommend you fork it._</code>

  2. Then open a pull request with that change. Here's the text we've been using for the pull request:

    This repository is no longer being maintained. This pull request makes it explicit in the `README.md`. Let me know if you have any reservations, otherwise I'm going to archive this repository.

/cc any relevant teams or recent <COMPANY_NAME> committers

  3. Let it sit until you receive confirmation from a maintainer or an adequate length of time has passed.

  4. Close all open issues and pull requests and archive the repository from the repository settings.