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GitHub now serves over 100M developers

Ryan Daws — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:25:11 +0000

GitHub has achieved its goal to serve 100 million developers with two years to spare. In 2019, GitHub set a goal to have 100 million developers using the service by 2025. In a blog post, GitHub announced that it’s already reached that historic milestone. GitHub CEO Thomas Dohmke wrote: “Today, I’m excited to share that... Read more »

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GitHub now sends Dependabot alerts for vulnerable Actions

Ryan Daws — Thu, 11 Aug 2022 15:18:52 +0000

GitHub has announced that it will begin sending Dependabot alerts when it detects vulnerable GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions makes it easy for developers to automate their workflows. Dependabot, meanwhile, automatically updates dependencies to keep your projects secure. When an Action vulnerability is discovered, GitHub’s team of security researchers will create an advisory to document it.... Read more »

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GitLab pivots on decision to wipe dormant projects

Ryan Daws — Fri, 05 Aug 2022 12:05:25 +0000

GitLab appears to have pivoted on a decision to automatically wipe dormant projects. On Thursday, The Register reported that GitLab planned to delete projects that have been inactive for a year and are owned by free users. The policy was due to come into effect in late September. GitLab is said to have estimated the... Read more »

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SFC urges developers to quit GitHub

Ryan Daws — Fri, 01 Jul 2022 15:46:06 +0000

The SFC (Software Freedom Conservancy) has quit GitHub and urges other developers to follow. SFC is a non-profit that aims to provide a home and services to Free, Libre, and Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects. On Thursday, the SFC posted a blog post criticising the dominant role that GitHub has established in FOSS development. In... Read more »

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GitHub’s Mermaid support enables developers to quickly create diagrams

Ryan Daws — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:24:36 +0000

GitHub has added native support for Mermaid—enabling developers to quickly generate diagrams. According to GitHub, both open-source and enterprise developers see a productivity boost of around 50 percent when provided with detailed documentation. Rich, visual formats often help to better present information. Last month, GitHub added support for .svg files to comments in issues, PRs,... Read more »

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GitHub incentivises open-source investments with sponsor-only repos

Ryan Daws — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 16:01:47 +0000

GitHub is launching private repositories that only sponsors have access to, helping to incentivise open-source investments. Open-source mostly relies on developers voluntarily giving up their time to build and improve projects. Priority is naturally given to work that helps to keep a roof over their heads and food on the table—meaning that open-source projects can... Read more »

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GitHub launches preview of improved code search

Ryan Daws — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 09:40:33 +0000

GitHub is making significant improvements to its code searching experience and has launched a technology preview for an early peek. The current search index covers more than five million of the most popular public repositories. In addition, developers can also search any private repositories they have access to. GitHub recommends trying five search functions to... Read more »

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GitHub Octoverse 2021: Developer diversity is increasing, code is shipping faster than ever

Ryan Daws — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 14:00:18 +0000

The 2021 edition of GitHub’s annual Octoverse report highlights a welcome increase in the diversity of the developer community alongside many other interesting trends. According to the report, almost 60 percent of active GitHub users are now distributed outside North America. The world’s largest repo service is seeing the fastest user growth in Indonesia, Brazil,... Read more »

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Linus Torvalds: GitHub creates ‘absolutely useless garbage’ merges

Ryan Daws — Wed, 08 Sep 2021 10:54:24 +0000

Linux and Git creator Linus Torvalds has criticised GitHub for creating “absolutely useless garbage merges”. Torvalds’ comment can be viewed in an archive of a Linux development mailing list and was directed at Konstantin Komarov, Founder and CEO of Paragon Software, about the submission of its read-write NTFS driver for the upcoming 5.15 kernel. “github... Read more »

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GitHub ‘sincerely apologises’ to Jewish employee fired over Nazis remark

Ryan Daws — Mon, 18 Jan 2021 13:56:24 +0000

GitHub has issued a public apology directed at a Jewish employee who was fired after making remarks about Nazis. Following the US Capitol attack from groups with known associations to Nazis and other white supremacists, the employee posted in an internal Slack channel: “Stay safe homies, Nazis are about.” A co-worker complained about the comment–-calling... Read more »

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