Maintainers

Creating an open source project can feel a bit like sending out an open invite to a party—will it be a roaring good time, or will you unbegrudginly dine on…

Open source’s impact on nuclear fusion research, adapting to technological change, and mastering GitHub essentials.

Are you looking for ways to support open source maintainers? Maintainer Month is the perfect opportunity!

GitHub Sponsors is now generally available for organizations. Also, new tooling for bulk sponsorships and an update on how we’re ensuring sustainability for GitHub Sponsors.

We are building a private space for maintainers to connect with peers, preview features, and learn from each other!

We are open sourcing our own OSPO policies, tools, and guides to help other OSPOs get started.

We’re taking a look at how open source software has evolved on GitHub, and how the role of a maintainer and contributor has changed alongside the massive growth in open source software.

We’re more excited than ever about what the future holds and the role open source will continue to play in solving critical societal challenges.

Investing in our open source future by supporting the maintainers of today.

By our estimation at GitHub, over 30% of Fortune 100 companies have now implemented OSPOs. Here’s what that means for open source.

We know that companies benefit from open source. That’s why we’re making it easier for companies to financially support projects.

GitHub this month installed a massive steel vault, etched with striking AI-generated art, deep within an Arctic mountain, finalizing its Arctic Code Vault. This vault contains the 188 reels of hardened archival film which will preserve the 02/02/2020 snapshot of every active public GitHub repository for 1,000 years. It also now includes a Tech Tree, a human-readable selection of works describing software, computers, and their foundational technologies, along with full-text copies of Wikipedia, Stack Overflow, and other data sources.

We’ve open sourced Trilogy, the database adapter we use to connect Ruby on Rails to MySQL-compatible database servers.

Marketing your open source project can be intimidating, but three experts share their insider tips and tricks for how to get your hard work on the right people’s radars.

Read about the six key themes, and tips for each, that ensure sustainable and healthy open source communities.