2018 Transparency Report
We’re excited to share GitHub’s 2018 Transparency Report, a by-the-numbers look at how we handle requests for user data and moderate content on GitHub.
We’re excited to share GitHub’s 2018 Transparency Report, a by-the-numbers look at how we handle requests for user data and moderate content on GitHub.
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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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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…
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