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GitHub

The GitHub logo
Type of site	Collaborative revision control
Available in	English
Headquarters	San Francisco
Owner	GitHub, Inc.
Employees	158Preston-Werner, Tom (10 April 2013). "Five years".
URL	github.com
Commercial	Yes
Registration	Optional (required for creating and joining projects)

GitHub is a web-based hosting service for software development projects that use the Git revision control system. GitHub offers both paid plans for private repositories, and free accounts for open source projects.

Description

The site provides social networking functionality such as feeds, followers, wikis (using gollum Wiki software) and the social network graph to display how developers work on their versions of a repository.

GitHub also operates other services: a pastebin-style site called Gist that provides wikis for individual repositories and web pages that can be edited through a Git repository, a slide hosting service called Speaker Deck, and a web analytics platform called Gauges.

As of January 2010, GitHub is operated under the name GitHub, Inc.

The software that runs GitHub was written using Ruby on Rails and Erlang by GitHub, Inc. (previously known as Logical Awesome) developers Chris Wanstrath, PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner.

Statistics

GitHub was launched in April 2008.

In a talk at Yahoo! headquarters on 24 February 2009, GitHub team members announced that during the first year that GitHub was online, it accumulated 46,000 public repositories, 17,000 of them in the previous month alone. At that time, about 6,200 repositories had been forked at least once and 4,600 merged. On 5 July 2009, a Github Blog post announced they reached the 100,000 users mark.

In another talk delivered at Yahoo! on 27 July 2009, Tom Preston-Werner announced that the numbers had risen to 90,000 unique public repositories, 12,000 having been forked at least once, for a total of 135,000 repositories. In July 2010, GitHub announced that it hosts 1 million repositories. In April 2011, GitHub announced that it is hosting 2 million repositories.

On 21 September 2011, GitHub announced it had reached over 1 million users.

On 13 September 2012, on their homepage, GitHub announced it had over 2.1 million users hosting over 3.7 million repositories.

On 19 December 2012, GitHub announced it had over 2.8 million users hosting over 4.6 million repositories

On 16 January 2013, GitHub announced it had passed the 3 million users mark and was then hosting more than 5 million repositories.

On 10 April 2013, GitHub announced it had 3.5 million users and was now hosting more than 6 million repositories.

On 23 December 2013, GitHub announced it had reached 10 million repositories.

Limitations and constraints

According to the terms of service, if an account's bandwidth usage significantly exceeds the average of other GitHub customers, the account's file hosting service may be immediately disabled or throttled until bandwidth consumption is reduced. In addition, while there is no hard limit, the guideline for the maximum size of a repository is one gigabyte. Also, there is a check for files larger than 100MB in a push; if any such files exist, the push will be rejected.

Software releases

On February 15, 2013, GitHub released Boxen, an open source Mac environment automation tool.

GitHub also has their standard GUI application available for download (for Windows and Mac only) directly from the service's website, and provides an open source Android app on Google Play.

Company

GitHub, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.

In July 2012, the company received $100 million in Series A funding, primarily from Andreessen Horowitz.

Revenue model

Peter Levine, general partner at GitHub's investor Andreessen Horowitz, stated that as of July 2012, GitHub had been growing revenue at 300% annually since 2008 "profitably nearly the entire way". GitHub offers private code hosting starting at $7/month for five repositories, up to $200/month for 125 repositories. Instances of GitHub can be licensed to run on private servers inside a company's firewall under the Enterprise plans ($5000/year/20 seats). Another revenue stream is GitHub Jobs where employers can post job offers for $450/listing. GitHub's salespeople are not paid on a commission basis.

Organizational structure

GitHub, Inc. is a flat organization with no middle managers; in other words, "everyone is a manager" (self-management). Employees can choose to work on projects that interest them (open allocation). However, salaries are set by the chief executive, Tom Preston-Werner.

See also

• Gitorious
• Comparison of open-source software hosting facilities

Notes

1. "Github.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
2. ^ Wanstrath, Chris (10 April 2008). "We Launched". GitHub.
3. "Github:gist". Gist.github.com. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
4. "Speaker Deck website". Speakerdeck.com. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
5. "Gauges". Get.gaug.es. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
6. Hyett, PJ (21 January 2010). "New Year, New Company". GitHub blog.
7. "Supercharged git-daemon". GitHub blog. 13 July 2008. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help)
8. "Interview with Chris Wanstrath". Doeswhat.com. 6 March 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
9. "100,000 Users!, Git Official Blog". 5 July 2009.
10. Dascalescu, Dan (3 November 2009). "The PITA Threshold: GitHub vs. CPAN". Dan Dascalescu's Wiki.
11. "One Million Repositories, Git Official Blog". 25 July 2010.
12. "Those are some big numbers, Git Official Blog". 20 April 2011.
13. "One Million · GitHub". Github.com. 21 September 2011. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
14. "GitHub · Build software better, together". Github.com. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
15. "The Octoverse in 2012 · GitHub". Github.com. 19 December 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
16. "Code-sharing site Github turns five and hits 3.5 million users, 6 million repositories". TheNextWeb.com. 11 April 2013. Retrieved 11 April 2013.
17. "Five Years". GitHub.com. 10 April 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2013.
18. "10 Million Repositories". GitHub.com. 23 December 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2013.
19. ^ "help.github.com -Terms of Service". 30 Octobre 2013. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
20. "help.github.com - What is my disk quota?". 23 March 2013.
21. boxen.github.com
22. "GitHub, Inc".
23. github.com/github/android
24. GitHub Google Play Android App
25. "Company Overview of GitHub Inc".
26. Tam, Pui-Wing (9 July 2012). "Coding Start-Up GitHub Gets $100-Million Boost". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
27. Macmillan, Douglas (9 July 2012). "GitHub Takes $100M in Largest Investment by Andreessen Horowitz". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
28. O'Dell, Jolie (9 July 2012). "Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper's ship for a $100M Series A". VentureBeat. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
29. Peter Levine (9 July 2012). "Software Eats Software Development".
30. "Right Before Raising $100 Million, GitHub Rented San Francisco's Ferry Building For A Lavish Party". Business Insider. 9 July 2012.
31. "Plans & Pricing". GitHub. 8 February 2013.
32. "github:enterprise". 8 February 2013.
33. "GitHub Jobs".
34. "Cash For Code: Github Raises $100 Million From Andreessen Horowitz". Forbes. 7/09/2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
35. Ryan Tomayko (2 April 2013). "Show How, Don't Tell What - A Management Style". Retrieved 28 August 2013.
36. Quentin Hardy. "Dreams of 'Open' Everything". New York Times.

References

• "GitHub Company Profile". CrunchBase.
• Paul, Ryan (17 July 2008). "Canonical's Launchpad gets a visual refresh". Ars Technica.
• Olson, Rob (22 July 2008). "GitHub unites Version Control with the Pastie". The Washington Post.
• Cooper, Peter (10 April 2008). "GitHub Officially Launches: Git Hosting A-Go-Go!". Ruby Inside.
• "Company Overview of GitHub Inc".

External links

• Official website
• Collaborative GitHub Workflow - introduction to distributed collaboration on GitHub

• Use dmy dates from November 2012
• Bug and issue tracking software
• Project management software
• Computing websites
• Internet properties established in 2008
• Revision control
• Open-source software hosting facilities
• South of Market, San Francisco