GitHub presents Field Day—a one-day unconference for leaders of technical student communities. Students will share how they build communities, learn from each other’s successes and mistakes, and explore how they…
Feedback is essential to the learning process. Input from an expert at the right time can make all the difference in a software project. In past programming classes, Professor John…
Thanks to everyone who joined us in London for Satellite last week. Now, we’re heading to Tokyo to meet more developers and business leaders at Constellation on June 6. If…
When issue or pull request discussions get heated, sometimes a solution can't be reached until everyone has had time to cool down. Now, with interaction limits, maintainers can temporarily limit…
Participating in open source can be incredibly rewarding, but it's not always obvious how to make your first contribution, start a new project, or build an active community. To make…
GitHub Enterprise 2.8 adds power and versatility directly into your workflow with Reviews for more streamlined code review and discussion, Projects to bring development-centric project management into GitHub, and Jupyter…
A new release of GitHub Enterprise is now available—and includes features requested by developers across the GitHub community. With GitHub Enterprise 2.6, we’re introducing tools and updates that will provide…
CodeConf LA will converge June 27-29, 2016 in sunny Los Angeles for three days of unforgettable discussions. We're searching for the best talks that the open source community has to…
Getting your first pull request from an outside contributor on GitHub is an exciting experience. Someone cared enough about the problem you were solving to check it out themselves, change…
CodeConf LA will converge June 27-29, 2016 in sunny Los Angeles for three days of unforgettable discussions. This year’s event will focus on systems engineering projects, practices, and programs in…
You’ll notice there’s a new Markdown text-formatting toolbar on all the comment fields throughout GitHub. While you've always been able to use Markdown to format your text with links, headers,…
If you're writing code, a repository is an obvious place to manage your work. But what about when the team's primary deliverable is not software? At GitHub, the Professional Services…
Back in April I said we would share the new initiatives we're launching to ensure GitHub is a welcoming and inclusive company. This work is long term and will remain…
As we announced previously we've improved our SSL setup by deploying forward secrecy and improving the list of supported ciphers. Deploying forward secrecy and up to date cipher lists comes…
GitHub has a long tradition of supporting developer communities throughout the world. We throw drinkups, speak at and sponsor conferences, and host training events in most corners of the globe.…
Today we're excited to share a new episode of OctoTales - our video series about incredible companies using GitHub to work better together. This episode features Balanced. Since 2011, Balanced…
Last month GitHub was proud to host the first Git Merge conference, a place for Git core developers and Git users to meet, talk about Git and share what they've…
Today we're happy to release Pulse. Pulse is a great way to discover recent activity on projects. Maybe you haven't checked on your favorite repository in a while or you…
On an average weekday, more than 70,000 comments are added to discussions on GitHub. Today we’re introducing a small enhancement to the way you can reply to discussion threads to…
Today, we’re releasing a new version of our notifications system and changing the way you watch repositories on GitHub. You’ll find the new notifications indicator next to the GitHub logo…
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…