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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 training-kit Public

    Open source courseware for Git and GitHub

    HTML 4.6k 4.4k

  2. choosealicense.com choosealicense.com Public

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

    Ruby 3.9k 1.4k

  3. scientist scientist Public

    🔬 A Ruby library for carefully refactoring critical paths.

    Ruby 7.6k 458

  4. gh-ost gh-ost Public

    GitHub's Online Schema-migration Tool for MySQL

    Go 12.9k 1.3k

  5. github-mcp-server github-mcp-server Public

    GitHub's official MCP Server

    Go 21.7k 2.3k

Repositories

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  • cleanowners Public

    A GitHub Action to suggest removal of non-organization members from CODEOWNERS files

    github/cleanowners’s past year of commit activity
    Python 134 MIT 14 5 1 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • docs Public

    The open-source repo for docs.github.com

    github/docs’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 17,759 CC-BY-4.0 63,020 54 (12 issues need help) 23 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • codeql Public

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

    github/codeql’s past year of commit activity
    CodeQL 8,652 MIT 1,766 883 (4 issues need help) 354 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • advisory-database Public

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

    github/advisory-database’s past year of commit activity
    1,943 CC-BY-4.0 456 70 15 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • pages-health-check Public

    Checks your GitHub Pages site for common DNS configuration issues

    github/pages-health-check’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 151 MIT 43 5 5 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • forgoodfirstissue Public

    Find your first issue for good to contribute to

    github/forgoodfirstissue’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 156 MIT 70 31 9 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • erblint-github Public

    Template style checking for GitHub's Ruby projects

    github/erblint-github’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 55 MIT 7 6 (1 issue needs help) 2 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • spark-template Public template
    github/spark-template’s past year of commit activity
    TypeScript 22 MIT 13 0 9 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • contributors Public

    GitHub Action that given an organization or repository, produces information about the contributors over the specified time period.

    github/contributors’s past year of commit activity
    Python 129 MIT 17 5 (4 issues need help) 4 Updated Aug 25, 2025
  • stale-repos Public

    Find stale repositories in a GitHub organization.

    github/stale-repos’s past year of commit activity
    Python 187 MIT 32 4 (1 issue needs help) 4 Updated Aug 25, 2025