Maintainers

Maintainers play a crucial role in open source projects and serve as the backbone of the open source ecosystem. Get insights into effective project management and community building techniques to create a welcoming and productive environment for contributors. You can also find information in our documentation around how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.

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The ReadME Project: A look back at the community stories that shape us

In August of 2020, we started highlighting stories that showcase how developers, maintainers, and organizations are moving humanity forward through The ReadME Project.

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Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects

When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.

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GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors

GitHub Actions is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that gives developers the ability to automate all of their software workflows. Developers have built amazing things with GitHub Actions, and the…

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Let’s talk about securing open source projects

In celebrating GitHub Security Lab’s one-year anniversary, we explained that we’re expanding our research focus. Why did we make this decision? The decision stemmed from our work with the Open…

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GitHub Action Hero: Eyal Posener and “Go Action”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Shivam Mathur and “Setup PHP”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero · James Ives and “GitHub Pages Deploy”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Stefan Zweifel and “git-auto-commit”

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Eddie Jaoude

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Keirron Stach

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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Maintainer spotlight: Managing dependencies and the Metasploit pen testing toolkit

Keeping open source software secure is a community responsibility. But with millions of projects, it’s hard to pinpoint the right signal from noise—and find and fix the vulnerabilities that really…

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Introducing The ReadME Project

Open source powers software on a planetary scale: 99% of code is built on it. The rewards and challenges of creating open source are deeply familiar to the maintainers and…

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GitHub Action Hero – Daniel Dennis

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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GitHub Action Hero: Swechhya Bista

GitHub Actions gives you the power to automate your workflow. Connect with the tools you know and love. Have more freedom to innovate and be creative. Deploy to any cloud,…

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Maintainer spotlight: How to secure your project with one of the world’s top open source tools

Simon Bennetts is the OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) Project Leader and a Distinguished Engineer at StackHawk, a company that uses ZAP to help users fix application security bugs before they hit production. Prior to making the move into security, he was a developer for 25 years and strongly believes that you can’t build secure web applications without knowing how to attack them.