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Microsoft GitHub orgs/users not verified

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
github

Research direction

Review the listed GitHub organizations and the notes about @Microsoft membership, starting with the verification status of each account. Done means the applicable organizations and users are verified, or the list clearly records any remaining blockers.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Description

Stale

Multiple Microsoft GitHub organizations are not verified.
List:
https://github.com/MicrosoftDocs
https://github.com/MicrosoftLearning
https://github.com/Microsoft365DSC
https://github.com/AzureAD
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge
https://github.com/microsoftgraph
https://github.com/Microsoft-corp (used for GitHub authentication to access a Microsoft account.)
NOTE: This user: https://github.com/microsoftopensource has Microsoft as their organization, but aren't a public member, and they need to do @Microsoft (GitHub uses @org and not just org for this!)
NOTE: This user:
https://github.com/msftgits has Microsoft as their organization, but aren't a public member, and they need to do @Microsoft (GitHub uses @org and not just org for this!)
https://github.com/MicrosoftCopilot (kinda more GitHub-iy)
https://github.com/microsoft-foundry
https://github.com/OfficeDev
https://github.com/MicrosoftResearch

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Stars
166
Forks
267
Avg merge
2d 13h
Merged PRs (30d)
4

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