When you first create an Organization, a team called developers is created.
The developers team is a special team. While it can be deleted
[if you so choose][#removing-the-developers-team], by default it acts as a "catch-all"
team. This means:
developers team by defaultdevelopers team has write access to all new Organization-scope package publishesThe effects of deleting the team are [covered below][#removing-the-developers-team].
developers teamYou may delete the developers team. If you do, newly added Organization members will not be added to any teams by default. Additionally, you will not be able to see all users in your org from the CLI, as one can only view the members of a team via the CLI.
You should also note that upon publish, in the absence of a developers
team, it is difficult to determine who should be set as maintainers
of that package. npm will do its best to fallback to another
Organization team that the publisher is a member of. This is not
predictable.
developers teamIf you've removed the developers team, but now want it back, you can
reinstate it by creating a new team called developers (case sensitive!).
You will need to add all current members of the Organization to the
new developers team, but, going forward all newly added Organization
members will be automatically added to the new developers team.
Last modified December 29, 2015 Found a typo? Send a pull request!