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How people build software.

Hey, this is us 👋

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Yes, we are building GitHub on GitHub. In fact, we’ve been doing this since October 19th, 2007. That's when we made our first commit. Since then we pushed over 2.5 million commits, opened over 1 million issues, submitted roughly 650k pull requests across 4357 repositories from over 50 countries. 🤯 But that's just us. We are proud to be part of the work of millions of developers, companies and robots across the solar system. 🪐 Yes, Robots!

🍿 An interconnected community

The open source community is the 💗 heart of GitHub and fundamental to how we build software today. See for yourself:

  • GitHub Sponsors helped support more than 5k individuals and projects around the world 🌍
  • Open source projects on GitHub received a stunning 218 million contributions 🚀 in the last year alone
  • Every minute a developer creates a new release 🏄 for a public project on GitHub

Now that we are talking about the important things, ☝️ are you contributing to open source? Yes? Okay, you rock! 🎸 If not, we can help you get started! Open source software is made by people just like you. Learn more about how to contribute.

🦦 Contributing to the ecosystem

We contribute to the tools 🔧 we rely on to build and run GitHub, while also maintaining 🧙‍♂️ our own open source projects like:

👓 Appendix

See what's next on our public roadmap ✨ and let us know if you have any suggestions. 🙇‍♂️ Oh, and by the way, we are always hiring talented, passionate people to join our team. 🙌

"Tell me more, I can't get enough!"

🤫 Psst! You can create your own organization README.

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  1. training-kit training-kit Public

    Open source courseware for Git and GitHub

    HTML 4.4k 4.4k

  2. choosealicense.com choosealicense.com Public

    A site to provide non-judgmental guidance on choosing a license for your open source project

    Ruby 3.7k 1.3k

  3. scientist scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.5k 444

  4. gh-ost gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.5k 1.3k

  5. covid-19-repo-data covid-19-repo-data Public archive

    Data archive of identifiable COVID-19 related public projects on GitHub

    512 178

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  • branch-deploy Public

    Enabling Branch Deployments through IssueOps with GitHub Actions - If you find this project useful, give it a star! ⭐️

    github/branch-deploy’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 401 MIT 47 4 (1 issue needs help) 0 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • codeql-action Public

    Actions for running CodeQL analysis

    github/codeql-action’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 1,177 MIT 333 138 (14 issues need help) 4 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • advisory-database Public

    Security vulnerability database inclusive of CVEs and GitHub originated security advisories from the world of open source software.

    github/advisory-database’s past year of commit activity
    1,763 CC-BY-4.0 340 58 10 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    github/docs’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 16,489 CC-BY-4.0 60,194 50 (20 issues need help) 7 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • pets-workshop Public template

    Workshop and getting started content for organizations using GitHub for Startups

    github/pets-workshop’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 43 MIT 12 0 2 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • rest-api-description Public

    An OpenAPI description for GitHub's REST API

    github/rest-api-description’s past year of commit activity
    1,417 MIT 239 147 0 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • vscode-codeql Public

    An extension for Visual Studio Code that adds rich language support for CodeQL

    github/vscode-codeql’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 428 MIT 191 137 (13 issues need help) 7 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    github/forgoodfirstissue’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 91 MIT 33 9 5 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • dmca Public

    Repository with text of DMCA takedown notices as received. GitHub does not endorse or adopt any assertion contained in the following notices. Users identified in the notices are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Additional information about our DMCA policy can be found at

    github/dmca’s past year of commit activity
    DIGITAL Command Language 5,572 1,279 0 9 Updated Dec 12, 2024
  • twirp-rs Public

    Twirp RPC for Rust

    github/twirp-rs’s past year of commit activity
    Rust 28 MIT 3 0 1 Updated Dec 12, 2024