October 21 post-incident analysis
In-depth analysis of the incident that impacted GitHub services on October 21 and 22.
In-depth analysis of the incident that impacted GitHub services on October 21 and 22.
Often pull request reviews surface conversations and follow-up actions that you want to act on seamlessly. Now you can click Open new issue within the pull request review comment’s options…
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Project maintainers shouldn’t have to risk their personal safety in order to build a strong community around their code. While various moderation actions already create timeline entries on the relevant…
Animated GIFs can help you capture the essence of what you’re trying to share in a way that is both clear and engaging.
Since last May repository admins have been able to activate temporary interaction limits to force a cooldown period during heated discussions. Admins can limit comments, reviews, or the creation of…
View and edit key information in issues and pull requests from within your project board.
Automate settings in your project boards for more workflow control with issues and pull requests.
Bring more organization to your project contributions with these improvements to issue templates.
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
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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