A Team Maintainer's role in a GitHub organization is focused on managing the specific team they are assigned to, not the entire organization or the repositories themselves. Their responsibilities include managing the team's membership by adding or removing members. They also manage the team's structure and place within the organization's hierarchy, which includes creating, deleting, and managing nested child teams under their parent team. These permissions allow for delegated administration of team composition and structure without granting higher-level organizational or repository-destructive privileges.

A. Modifying organization-wide settings is a privilege reserved for the "Organization Owner" role, which has the highest level of administrative access.

D. Deleting a repository requires admin permissions on that specific repository. This is a repository-level permission, not an inherent right of the Team Maintainer role.

1. GitHub Docs. (n.d.). About teams. Retrieved from https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/about-teams.

Section: Team roles

Paragraph 2: "Team maintainers can manage team membership and settings." This supports the general scope of the role.

2. GitHub Docs. (n.d.). Assigning the team maintainer role to a team member. Retrieved from https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/assigning-the-team-maintainer-role-to-a-team-member.

Section: Permissions for team maintainers

Bullet points: This section explicitly lists "Add organization members to the team" and "Remove organization members from the team

" directly supporting option C.

3. GitHub Docs. (n.d.). Moving a team in your organization's hierarchy. Retrieved from https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/organizing-members-into-teams/moving-a-team-in-your-organizations-hierarchy.

Paragraph 1: "To move a team

you must be an organization owner or have team maintainer permissions in the team." This confirms that managing a team's place in the nested structure is a maintainer's responsibility

supporting option B.

4. GitHub Docs. (n.d.). Permission levels for an organization. Retrieved from https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-peoples-access-to-your-organization-with-roles/permission-levels-for-an-organization.

Section: Owners

Paragraph 1: This section details that only owners can manage organization-level settings

which refutes option A.

5. GitHub Docs. (n.d.). Repository roles for an organization. Retrieved from https://docs.github.com/en/organizations/managing-access-to-your-organizations-repositories/repository-roles-for-an-organization.

Section: Permissions table: The table shows that the ability to "Delete a repository" requires the Admin role for that specific repository

refuting option D as an inherent Team Maintainer duty.