What are GitHub Seats? How do I determine how many seats I have and who I've issued them to?

[Rod-at-DOH]

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I am one of the GitHub Administrators for my agency. And I happen to also be one of the Visual Studio Administrators. Typically, when we get a new employee, I'll issue him/her a Visual Studio license with GitHub Enterprise.

That's great, for developers. But there's this other thing called "seats". Whenever I assign someone like a project manager or a business analyst to a repo within one of our GitHub Organizations, then they'll take one of the "seats" that are available. We used to have 35 seats, but now we're down to less than 10. I don't understand what GitHub "seats" are except that they don't take any of the Visual Studio licenses, so here's my questions about that:

• What are GitHub Seats?
• How do I determine how many seats we have?
• How do I determine who I've issued a seat to?

[queenofcorgis]

Hi @Rod-at-DOH,

GitHub bills for each of the following accounts on GitHub Enterprise Cloud, so these are the seats are:

• Enterprise owners who are a member or owner of at least one organization in the enterprise
• Organization members, including owners
• Outside collaborators on private or internal repositories owned by your organization, excluding forks
• Dormant users who are a member or owner of at least one organization in the enterprise

To see how many seats you have: I recommend our Viewing license usage for GitHub Enterprise doc - there may be some helpful info in this doc about how to determine who has a seat as well.

To see who you've issued a seat to, I recommend checking out our doc: Viewing people in your Enterprise.