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:
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!"
- GitHub is built using mighty ?? open source technologies like
Ruby on Rails
,
Go
,
Primer
,
React
and
Kafka
among others.
- The three open source projects GitHub members have most contributed ????? to are:
- By the way, our
documentation
?? is also open sourced
?? Psst! You can create your own
organization README
.