Maintainers

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.

Maintainers answer your questions about how to manage an open source project that grows into a community.

To celebrate Maintainer Month, GitHub has invested an additional $500,000 to help sponsor the open source projects that it depends on.

During the month of June, we’re holding space for open source maintainers to gather, share, and be celebrated.

Along with the release of sponsors-only repositories, here’s a look at what’s new and what’s next for Sponsors.

Maintainers can now limit who can approve and request changes on pull requests. You can also close issues and block users via your phone.