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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 7.5k 445

  4. gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.6k 1.3k

  5. covid-19-repo-data Public archive

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

    525 182

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  • rest-api-description Public

    An OpenAPI description for GitHub's REST API

    1,455 MIT 250 163 4 Updated Feb 28, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    TypeScript 17,035 CC-BY-4.0 61,052 33 (12 issues need help) 5 Updated Feb 28, 2025
  • advisory-database Public

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

    1,813 CC-BY-4.0 368 59 6 Updated Feb 27, 2025
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    TypeScript 111 MIT 50 11 10 Updated Feb 28, 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 8,034 MIT 1,615 827 (4 issues need help) 360 Updated Feb 28, 2025
  • dependency-submission-toolkit Public

    A TypeScript library for creating dependency snapshots.

    TypeScript 47 MIT 13 5 2 Updated Feb 28, 2025
  • 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

    DIGITAL Command Language 5,636 1,297 0 9 Updated Feb 27, 2025
  • codeql-action Public

    Actions for running CodeQL analysis

    TypeScript 1,215 MIT 350 125 (2 issues need help) 7 Updated Feb 27, 2025
  • emergency-pull-request-probot-app Public

    Bypass approval and checks in order to merge an emergency change to the main branch with audit controls.

    JavaScript 48 MIT 4 0 1 Updated Feb 27, 2025
  • explore Public

    Community-curated topic and collection pages on GitHub

    Ruby 4,353 CC-BY-4.0 13,024 2 7 Updated Feb 27, 2025