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The site will be down for maintenance this weekend (Saturday, May 14, 2011) starting at 22:00 PDT for a MySQL upgrade. We expect the outage to last only a few…

Join us this Thursday at Thirsty Bear for what will perhaps become an annual tradition of Thirsty Bear meetups. Those of you who were there last year probably know why,…

This week marks the initial alpha release of the GitHub Mylyn connector for Eclipse. If you are unfamiliar with the Mylyn project, it is a set of plug-ins that adds…

I’ll be in Verona, Italy this Friday during phpDay 2011 and jsDay 2011. If you’re in the area or at one of the conferences, come have a beer on GitHub…

If you’re in the Seattle area, we’re doing a drinkup in Bellevue, WA (in-between Seattle and Redmond) tomorrow night – Saturday, May 7th at 7pm. Tim and I will be…

GitHub is in town again and wants to buy you some beer at John Harvards once again! Be there at 7pm or so and we’ll keep the pitchers a-coming. tl;dr:…

One of the first requests we received after launching Issues 2.0 was API support. Today, we are launching the documentation for API v3, with support for all of the new…

You’ve been able to edit files in repositories you own on GitHub for years. But today, we’ve improved the workflow for this functionality. You can now edit files in repositories…

A bunch of us are heading over to Amsterdam for Puppet Camp EU this week. We’ll be co-hosting conference drinks at Cafe The News with Optiver around 21:00 on Thursday…

With Pull Requests 2.0, it became easier than ever to review code and accept patches. We use pull requests extensively at GitHub, and I love receiving pull requests on my…

Every night, our friendly Hubot pops into one of our Campfire rooms and posts some numbers. Turns out we passed some pretty significant numbers in the past couple days. And…

Welcome to the The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. This week, we welcome Python’s…

Here at GitHub, we love Markdown. We use it everywhere: to render the wikis, issues, pull requests, and all user-generated comments. We even encourage developers to write their READMEs in…

If you know what apps.gov is then you should be happy to know that GitHub is now listed: GitHub on apps.gov Thanks to our friends at the FCC and GSA…

Welcome to the fourth edition of The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. Featured Repo…

Looking for an awesome job? You’re in luck. We just launched a bunch of new enhancements to make finding the perfect job on GitHub Jobs even easier. The App First…

CodeConf 2011 was amazing. Thanks to all the speakers, sponsors, organizers, and attendees for making it great! If you couldn’t make it or missed a talk, our friends over at…

Issue management: the final frontier. Almost two years ago to the day, GitHub launched an issue tracker. Some people love it, some people hate it — but let’s not focus…

Next Monday, April 11, GitHub is hosting another online Git training course conducted by our friend Matthew McCullough of Ambient Ideas. If you or your teammates need to get up…

It’s been a few weeks, so it seems like time to do another GitHub Drinkup in New York. This time PJ and I will be at the Apple Bombar near…

Welcome to the third edition of The GitHub Reflog — the weekly chronicle of remarkable GitHub repos and community activity. For previous editions, check out The Reflog Archive. Community Update…