@GlazerMann , have you thought about doing Special:EmailUser/Smith609 and asking him to promote you from GitHub collaborator to GitHub owner? There can be multiple owners on a repo so he can still be an owner too. Some of the benefits would be...

• add additional owners/collaborators
• Settings -> General -> Pull Requests -> tick "Always suggest updating pull request branches". adds a rebase button to PRs. one click rebasing is good. you wouldn't have to make a merge conflict commit to get the rebase button anymore.