Yes, we are building GitHub on GitHub. In fact, we’ve been doing this sinceOctober 19th, 2007. That's when we made our first commit. Since then we pushedover 2.5 million commits, openedover 1 million issues, submitted roughly650k pull requests across4357 repositories from over50 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!
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 than5k individuals and projects around the world 🌍
- Open source projects on GitHub received a stunning218 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 abouthow to contribute.
We contribute to the tools 🔧 we rely on to build and run GitHub, while also maintaining 🧙♂️ our own open source projects like:
- GitHub CLI - A command line tool for GitHub
- Git Large File Storage - A git extension for versioning large files
- Primer - The GitHub design system
See what's next on ourpublic roadmap ✨ andlet us know if you have any suggestions 🙇♂️. Oh, and by the way, we are always hiring talented, passionate people tojoin our team 🙌.
"Tell me more, I can't get enough!"
- GitHub is built using mighty 🔨 open source technologies likeRuby on Rails,Go,Primer,React andKafka among others.
- The three open source projects GitHub members have most contributed 👩💻 to are:
- By the way, ourdocumentation 🤓 is also open sourced
🤫 Psst! You can create your ownorganization README.
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