A few words on the recent outages
While we’ve been working hard to keep ahead of the demand for new file servers to push to and new web servers to keep the angry unicorn at bay, we’ve…
While we’ve been working hard to keep ahead of the demand for new file servers to push to and new web servers to keep the angry unicorn at bay, we’ve…
GitHub launched with a simple pull request system on day one. You’ve used it to send 200 thousand pull requests in just over two years. Now we’re taking it to…
In a little over twelve hours from now we’ll be flipping the switch on GitHub Jobs. That means you only have until midnight PDT to post a job at our…
We will be performing some maintenance on the database tonight (Tuesday, July 13, 2010) at 18:00 PST. We will temporarily disable background jobs while this takes place, but all data…
Update [January 1, 2017]: Our pricing plans have changed. For information on our latest plans, check out our pricing page. When we launched Organizations yesterday we were overwhelmed by the…
Today we’re introducing Organizations. Organizations simplify management of group-owned repositories (for example: your company’s code), expand on our permissions system, and help focus your GitHub workflow for business and large…
Slide just open-sourced a bunch of code on their GitHub account, joining the likes of Digg, Yahoo, Facebook and many more forward-thinking companies. Check it out.
Today we’re opening up a new site — http://status.github.com. We’ll be using this site (in addition to our twitter account) to post status updates (maintenance warnings, outages, etc). This site…
Following three months of near 100% uptime, we’ve just been through three major outages in as many days. I wanted to take some time to detail the problems and what…
Update 1/19/2010: Page build notifications have been added to the list of notifications you can turn on/off and have moved to the Notifications section as well. Thanks! Today we rolled…
Dont worry fellow San Franciscans! There’s still a drinkup slated for the home front. We’ll be in SOMA at John Colins this Thursday December 3rd at 8:00pm. That’s right, three…
Update: We’ve launched GitHub Jobs, go check it out! Today we’re rolling out Phase 1 to our GitHub Jobs search engine. Under your Account Settings page, there’s a new tab…
img http://img.skitch.com/20091111-bir68bb7kn76kdpdtr1988m1yr.png Continuing our tour of Europe, PJ, and Scott, and I will be in Oslo on Friday the 13th and we’d like to invite you to join us at…
On my first day at GitHub, I asked the crew what they wanted to me to do around here. Their response was something along the lines of “make GitHub sexy”…
The Unofficial Apple Weblog, or TUAW, is now on GitHub: http://github.com/tuaw img http://img.skitch.com/20091014-p9c85ngu2yrhsr7jnrd888ex6.png http://github.com/tuaw While there’s nothing there yet, they only announced the account yesterday and said in the post,…
We had an outage this morning from 06:32 to 07:42 PDT. One of the file servers experienced an unusually high load that caused the heartbeat monitor on that file server…
HI folks, just wanted to give you all a little feedback on the move again. Get everyone up to speed on the currently known issues. First and foremost, if you…
On Sunday, September 27th at 5PM Pacific time (see it in your timezone) we will begin the final move to Rackspace. We are aiming to have less than an hour…
The results have been tallied and the curtains have closed. The 2009 GitHub Contest prize of a Large account and a bottle of 20 year Pappy Van Winkle goes to…
Today we’re announcing our 2009 GitHub Contest. Since the Netflix prize is now over, we figured you guys needed something to do. Here is your chance to contribute to the…
If you’re in New York, or are interested in Open Government initiatives, you may be excited to know that the New York State Senate has opened up to the online…
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