Task Lists are open source
We’re open-sourcing the components that power task lists on GitHub, including the HTML rendering pipeline filter packaged as a Gem and the JavaScript update behaviors published as a Bower package.…
We’re open-sourcing the components that power task lists on GitHub, including the HTML rendering pipeline filter packaged as a Gem and the JavaScript update behaviors published as a Bower package.

Since the introduction of task lists, we’ve expanded support to Gist and Markdown files in your repositories, helped the White House move code into the public domain, and enabled waffle.io to integrate seamlessly with your GitHub Issues’ task lists.
We can’t wait to see what the community builds with them next.
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