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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 Public

    Open source courseware for Git and GitHub

    HTML 4.5k 4.4k

  2. choosealicense.com Public

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

    Ruby 3.8k 1.4k

  3. scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.6k 451

  4. gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.7k 1.3k

  5. covid-19-repo-data Public archive

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

    549 186

Repositories

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  • github-mcp-server Public

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    Go 5,964 MIT 286 24 9 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • rubocop-rails-accessibility Public

    This repository provides recommended RuboCop configuration and additional accessibility RuboCop Rails cops for use on open source and internal Rails projects.

    Ruby 32 MIT 2 1 1 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • codeql Public

    CodeQL: the libraries and queries that power security researchers around the world, as well as code scanning in GitHub Advanced Security

    CodeQL 8,204 MIT 1,645 828 (4 issues need help) 356 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • vscode-codeql Public

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

    TypeScript 447 MIT 200 137 (12 issues need help) 6 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    TypeScript 17,234 CC-BY-4.0 61,412 39 (12 issues need help) 18 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • advisory-database Public

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

    1,863 CC-BY-4.0 391 62 6 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • browser-support Public

    Polyfills & Capable Browser detection

    JavaScript 143 MIT 20 1 0 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • request-marketplace-action Public

    Actions workflows to help organizations manage the process of users requesting to use GitHub Actions from Marketplace and approving or denying such requests within an organization.

    Dockerfile 24 3 0 1 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • vitess-gh Public Forked from vitessio/vitess

    Vitess is a database clustering system for horizontal scaling of MySQL.

    Go 28 Apache-2.0 2,222 0 6 Updated Apr 7, 2025
  • eslint-plugin-github Public

    An opinionated collection of ESLint rules used by GitHub.

    JavaScript 312 MIT 59 12 0 Updated Apr 7, 2025