Game Off Theme Announcement
We announced the GitHub Game Jam, our very own month-long game jam, a few weeks ago. Today, we’re announcing the theme and officially kicking it off. Ready player one! The…
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News & insights
Resources for developers seeking to stay informed about the latest industry trends, research, and updates from GitHub. Explore research and surveys that delve into various aspects of software development and open source communities—and Octoverse, which provides detailed annual analyses of open source and public projects across GitHub.
Save the Date: Git Merge 2017
We’re kicking off 2017 with Git Merge, February 2-3 in Brussels. Join us for a full day of technical talks and user case studies, plus a day of pre-conference workshops…
Patchwork Austin
We’re hosting this Patchwork with our friends at Condé Nast in Austin. The event is open to all beginners to Git and GitHub, or mentors who would like to help…
Incident Report: Inadvertent Private Repository Disclosure
On Thursday, October 20th, a bug in GitHub’s system exposed a small amount of user data via Git pulls and clones. In total, 156 private repositories of GitHub.com users were…
Introducing Projects for Organizations
You can now use GitHub Projects at the Organization level. All users in your Organization will have access to its Projects, so you and your team can plan and manage…
Meet Nahi: Developer and Ruby Contributor
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Hiroshi “Nahi” Nakamura, currently a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and Software Engineer at…
GitHub Shop: Octicon sticker packs are here
Octicons are meant to be shared. Get a pack of vinyl Octicon stickers to divvy up with friends—now available in the GitHub Shop.
octocatalog-diff: GitHub’s Puppet development and testing tool
Today we are announcing the open source release of octocatalog-diff: GitHub’s Puppet development and testing tool. GitHub uses Puppet to configure the infrastructure that powers GitHub.com, comprised of hundreds of…
Introducing GitHub Community Guidelines
Building software should be safe for everyone. The GitHub community is made up of millions of developers around the world, ranging from the new developer who created their first “Hello…
New to InnerSource? A panel of experts talk through the corporate version of open source
Most developers are already familiar with the concept of InnerSourcing, although many have never called it that. InnerSource is simply using best practices and methodologies from open source development in…
Get testing with Taplytics in the Student Developer Pack
Taplytics is now offering mobile testing to students in the Student Developer Pack. Taplytics helps mobile developers create great experiences through: A/B testing, push notifications, and custom analytics. As part…
Dismissing reviews on Pull Requests
Pull request reviews are a great way to share the weight of building software. Using protected branches to block merging when pull requests have reviews that request changes helps your…
Hacktoberfest is back
Celebrate open source this October by participating in Hacktoberfest, a month-long festival of code organized by our friends at DigitalOcean and hosted on GitHub. To participate, simply open a pull…
License now displayed on repository overview
Licenses are now displayed in the repository overview, allowing anyone to easily see if a project has an open source license. This change is immediately available on GitHub, and will…
Mission Report: GitHub Universe
On September 14 in San Francisco, more than 1,500 developers helped us kick off GitHub Universe and share stories about open source, workplace best practices, and how the GitHub Community…
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