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Maintainers

Maintainers play a crucial role in open source projects and serve as the backbone of the open source ecosystem, overseeing project development, managing contributions, and ensuring a project’s long-term health and sustainability. Explore maintainer spotlights that cover the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with maintaining open source projects. Get insights into effective project management, communication strategies, and community building techniques that help maintainers create a welcoming and productive environment for contributors. By highlighting the experiences and lessons learned from seasoned maintainers, we shine a light on some of the most important people in the open source community—and offer their experiences as lessons for other open source developers. You can also find information in our documentation around how to build and foster sustainable open source communities.

Unpacking the value of open source and code collaboration

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.

An open source economy–built by developers, for developers

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

Why more companies are investing in open source program offices

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

Bringing greater financial sustainability to open source communities

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

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“If you don’t make it beautiful, it’s for sure doomed”: putting the Vault in GitHub’s Arctic Code Vault

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.

Introducing Trilogy: a new database adapter for Ruby on Rails

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

Marketing for maintainers: Promote your project to users and contributors

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.

Top tips for creating a healthy and sustainable open source community

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

What to do when your open source project becomes a community?

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

Thank you Maintainers

Thank you to our maintainers

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

Welcome to Maintainer Month 2022! 🎉

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

New sponsors-only repositories, custom amounts, and more

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

The ReadME Project: A look back at the community stories that shape us

In August of 2020, we started highlighting stories that showcase how developers, maintainers, and organizations are moving humanity forward through The ReadME Project.

Minimum Viable Governance: lightweight community structure to grow your FOSS projects

When you move from 1 maintainer to 1+N maintainers of your project, things can get complicated. Minimum Viable Governance (MVG) is a simple, easy-to-implement governance framework for your free and open source projects.

GitHub Actions update: Helping maintainers combat bad actors

GitHub Actions is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that gives developers the ability to automate all of their software workflows. Developers have built amazing things with GitHub Actions, and the…

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