I am currently doing development work on a repository that is owned by my department's group. In one of the repositories, I have admin privileges. What I want to do is make the code of this repository private and to upload a second repository that simply lists all of the issues from the original repository.
I have created a blank repository under my own account, and I intend to transfer ownership to the department's github account. My problem is that I cannot transfer the ownership of the new issues-only repository to an account that I do not have login-access to. Is there any way of getting around this?
Edit: I have already tried transferring ownership, but I get the error: "You don’t have the permission to create public repositories on [groupname]"