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GitHub
Type of site
collaborative revision control
Available inEnglish
HeadquartersSan Francisco
OwnerGitHub, Inc.
Employees89
URLGitHub.com
CommercialYes
RegistrationRequired

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. As of May 2011, GitHub was the most popular open source code repository site.[3]

GitHub Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in San Francisco, California.[4]

In July 2012, the company received US$100 million in Series A funding, primarily from Andreessen Horowitz.[5][6][7]

Description

The site provides social networking functionality such as feeds, followers and the network graph to display how developers work on their versions of a repository.

GitHub also operates other services: a pastebin-style site called Gist[8] that provides wikis for individual repositories and web pages that can be edited through a Git repository, a slide hosting service called Speaker Deck,[9] and a web analytics platform called Gauges.[10]

As of January 2010, GitHub is operated under the name GitHub, Inc.[11]

The software that runs GitHub was written using Ruby on Rails and Erlang [12] by GitHub, Inc. (previously known as Logical Awesome) developers Chris Wanstrath,[13] PJ Hyett, and Tom Preston-Werner.

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".[14] GitHub offers private code hosting[15] starting at US$7/month for five repositories, up to US$200/month for 125 repositories[16]. Instances of GitHub can be licensed to run on private servers inside a company's firewall under the Enterprise plans ($5000/year/20 seats).[17] Another revenue stream is github:jobs where employers can post job offers for US$450/listing.[18] GitHub's salespersons are not paid on a commission basis, and onboarding customers was described as coming from the customer's decision rather than a sales-heavy process.[19]

Statistics

GitHub was launched in April 2008.[2]

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.[20]

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.[21] In July 2010, GitHub announced that it hosts 1 million repositories.[22] In April 2011, GitHub announced that it is hosting 2 million repositories.[23]

On 21 September 2011, GitHub announced it had reached over 1 million users.[24]

On 13 September 2012, on their homepage, GitHub announced it had over 2.1 million users hosting over 3.7 million repositories.[25]

On 19 December 2012, GitHub announced it had over 2.8 million users hosting over 4.6 million repositories [26]

On 16 January 2013, GitHub announced it had passed the 3 million users mark and now hosting more than 5 million repositories. [27]

Limitations and constraints

According to the terms of service,[28] 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.

Software releases

On February 15th, 2013 Github released Boxen, an open source Mac environment automation tool. From the Boxen website: "Boxen is your team's IT robot. It's a dangerously opinionated framework that automates every piece of your development environment. GitHub, Inc. wrote the first version of Boxen (imaginatively called “The Setup”) to help employees start shipping on day one. It's configuration management for everyone: Designers, HR mavens, legal eagles, and developers. We believe that development is production, so we value consistency, predictability, and reproducibility over artisanal, hand-tweaked development environments."

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "Github.com Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  2. ^ a b Wanstrath, Chris (10 April 2008). "We Launched". GitHub.
  3. ^ Klint Finley (2 June 2011). "Github Has Surpassed Sourceforge and Google Code in Popularity". ReadWriteWeb. Retrieved 26 May 2012.
  4. ^ "Company Overview of GitHub Inc".
  5. ^ Tam, Pui-Wing (9 July 2012). "Coding Start-Up GitHub Gets $100-Million Boost". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  6. ^ Macmillan, Douglas (9 July 2012). "GitHub Takes $100M in Largest Investment by Andreessen Horowitz". Bloomberg News. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  7. ^ O'Dell, Jolie (9 July 2012). "Why GitHub abandoned the bootstrapper's ship for a $100M Series A". VentureBeat. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
  8. ^ Github:gist
  9. ^ Speaker Deck website
  10. ^ Gauges
  11. ^ Hyett, PJ (21 January 2010). "New Year, New Company". GitHub blog.
  12. ^ "Supercharged git-daemon". GitHub blog. 13 July 2008. {{cite web}}: |first= missing |last= (help); Missing or empty |url= (help); Text "https://github.com/blog/112-supercharged-git-daemon" ignored (help)
  13. ^ Interview with Chris Wanstrath
  14. ^ Peter Levine (9 July 2012). "Software Eats Software Development".
  15. ^ "Right Before Raising $100 Million, GitHub Rented San Francisco's Ferry Building For A Lavish Party". Business Insider. Jul. 9, 2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  16. ^ "Plans & Pricing". GitHub. 8 February 2013.
  17. ^ "github:enterprise". 8 February 2013.
  18. ^ "github:jobs".
  19. ^ "Cash For Code: Github Raises $100 Million From Andreessen Horowitz". Forbes. 7/09/2012. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  20. ^ "100,000 Users!, Git Official Blog". 5 July 2009.
  21. ^ Dascalescu, Dan (3 November 2009). "The PITA Threshold: GitHub vs. CPAN". Dan Dascalescu's Wiki.
  22. ^ "One Million Repositories, Git Official Blog". 25 July 2010.
  23. ^ "Those are some big numbers, Git Official Blog". 20 April 2011.
  24. ^ https://github.com/blog/936-one-million
  25. ^ https://github.com/home
  26. ^ https://github.com/blog/1359-the-octoverse-in-2012
  27. ^ https://github.com/blog/1382-three-million-users
  28. ^ "Help.GitHub - Terms of Service". 20 February 2012.

References

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