Project board automation and template updates
Automate settings in your project boards for more workflow control with issues and pull requests.
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How to use pull requests in the classroom
Bring more organization to your project contributions with these improvements to issue templates.
The fight progresses as the net neutrality deadline approaches
Congress has about 30 legislative days left to reverse an FCC order repealing net neutrality, while many U.S. states move to protect net neutrality
Game Off 2017 winners
Thousands of game developers from all over the world participated in Game Off, our fifth annual game jam celebrating open source. The theme this year was throwback, and jammers created…
Archiving repositories
Just because a repository isn't actively developed anymore and you don't want to accept additional contributions doesn't mean you want to delete it. Now archive repositories on GitHub to make…
Mitigating replication lag and reducing read load with freno
At GitHub, we use MySQL as the main database technology backing our services. We run classic MySQL master-replica setups, where writes go to the master, and replicas replay master's changes asynchronously. To be able to serve our traffic we read data from the MySQL replicas.
Stretching Spokes
GitHub's Spokes system stores multiple distributed copies of Git repositories. This article discusses how we got Spokes replication to span widely separated datacenters. Background: Spokes GitHub developed a system called…
Extend your workflow with these new Marketplace apps
Whatever you use to build software, chances are there are ways to simplify. GitHub Marketplace brings together your favorite tools to provide the functionality and expertise you need to work…
Introducing temporary interaction limits
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…
Adding Community & Safety checks to new features
With the continuous shipping nature at GitHub, it's easy for the most well-intentioned feature to accidentally become the vector of abuse and harassment. The Community & Safety engineering team focuses…
Email updates about your own activity
When you enable email notifications, GitHub sends you messages about everyone's issues, pull requests, comments, and commits except your own. For many people that leaves email threads feeling incomplete. For…
Git 2.9 has been released
The open source Git project has just released Git 2.9.0, with a variety of features and bug fixes. Here's our look at some of the most interesting new features: Faster…
Repository invitations
Beginning today, repository admins must invite you to their repository and you must accept the invitation before you can start collaborating. Repository invitations let you decide whether or not you…
Migrate your repositories using ghe-migrator
Sometimes customers find themselves needing the unique advantages of GitHub Enterprise and decide to move their private repositories there. Now it's easier than ever to move repositories to GitHub Enterprise…
Expanded webhook events
Webhooks are one of the more powerful ways to extend GitHub. They allow internal tools and third-party integrations to subscribe to specific activity on GitHub and receive notifications (via an…
Meet Richard Davey, creator of Phaser
To highlight the people behind projects we admire, we bring you the GitHub Developer Profile blog series. Meet Richard Davey, the game developer behind Phaser — a free open source…
Scientist: Measure Twice, Cut Once
Today we're releasing Scientist 1.0 to help you rewrite critical code with confidence. As codebases mature and requirements change, it is inevitable that you will need to replace or rewrite…
Move Fast and Fix Things
Anyone who has worked on a large enough codebase knows that technical debt is an inescapable reality: The more rapidly an application grows in size and complexity, the more technical…
Adding a billing manager to your organization
With the new billing manager role, you can invite individuals to manage the billing details of your organization without giving them access to code. The new role enables a user…