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GitHub's Annual Report Reveals This Year's Top Contributor: Microsoft (github.com)
GitHub saw more than 67 million pull requests this year -- more than a third of GitHub's "lifetime" total of 200 million pull requests since its launch in 2008. It now hosts 96 million repositories, and has over 31 million contributors -- including 8 million who just joined within the last 12 months.
These are among the facts released in GitHub's annual "State of the Octoverse" report -- a surprising number of which involve Microsoft.
"Since we've launched security alerts, we've alerted you to more than 5 million vulnerabilities across the open source projects your teams depend on. And you've already resolved more than 800,000 of these," GitHub reports. In addition, "This year, more than 150 hackers helped us resolve issues in an average of 6 days," with a total of 213 bug bounty reports resolved. "Together, the engineers and researchers in our program earned more than $300,000 in bounties."
There's also some statistics on how contributors use GitHub:
These are among the facts released in GitHub's annual "State of the Octoverse" report -- a surprising number of which involve Microsoft.
- GitHub's top project this year, by contributor count, was Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (with 19,000 contributors), followed by Facebook's React Native (10,000), TensorFlow (9,300) and Angular CLI (8,800) -- as well as Angular (7,600) -- and the open source documentation for Microsoft Azure (7,800).
- Microsoft now has more employees contributing to open source projects than any other company or organization (7,700 employees), followed by Google (5,500), Red Hat (3,300), U.C. Berkeley (2,700), and Intel (2,200).
- The open source documentation for Microsoft Azure is GitHub's fastest-growing open source project, followed by PyTorch (an open source machine learning library for Python).
- Among the "Cool new open source projects" is an Electron app running Windows 95.
But more than 2.1 million organizations are now using GitHub (including public and private repositories) -- which is 40% more than last year -- and the report offers a fun glimpse into the minutiae of life in the coding community.
Read on for more details.
"Since we've launched security alerts, we've alerted you to more than 5 million vulnerabilities across the open source projects your teams depend on. And you've already resolved more than 800,000 of these," GitHub reports. In addition, "This year, more than 150 hackers helped us resolve issues in an average of 6 days," with a total of 213 bug bounty reports resolved. "Together, the engineers and researchers in our program earned more than $300,000 in bounties."
There's also some statistics on how contributors use GitHub:
- Contributors are most active -- creating issues, opening pull requests, or making comments -- between two and four in the afternoon.
- GitHub reports that its contributors are less active in private repositories on weekends, "And there's always one quiet day on GitHub, regardless of location: New Year's."
- GitHub's top trending topic was "hacktoberfest", followed by "pytorch".
- GitHub's top emoji is a yellow "thumbs-up" icon, which over the last year was used 3.5 million times. GitHub even reports which programming language communities were most likely to use the yellow thumbs-up icon -- Java, followed by TypeScript, Go, JavaScript, and Python. (The Ruby community, meanwhile, was the one most likely to use the red heart icon.)
And there's also statistics on where contributors are located.
- 80% of GitHub's users come from outside of the United States, with that percentage increasing year after year. But the U.S. still has the most contributors, followed by China, and India -- and the same three countries also had the most new signups this year.
- The countries with the next-most contributors were the U.K., Germany, Canada, and Brazil (which rose three ranks this year, from the #10 position to #7...)
- Overall, more open source projects have been created in Asia than any other part of the world.
"Developers from the Czech Republic are especially chatty in public and open source repositories," the report notes -- followed by Switzerland, Germany, the United States, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom.
It was said more than 20 years ago
We were warned
It's all just a little bit of history repeating
When will we ever learn...
You blew it up, Damn You All, Damn You All To Hell !!!
In other words Microsoft has a large outsourcing operation going.
Anyways the statistics says nothing about business value.
Microsoft was using a product they bought. Award given?
https://www.youtube.com/c/BrendaEM
The new h1 visa market, it has hoarded a new mass of $1 an hour coders and they have gathered at the front line of relentlessly pursuing the destruction all forms of open source software... In 5 years from now, all that will be left is the new corporate overlord: america offline with a chance of clouds
You can use git without github.
There are also alternatives to github that provide issue tracking like github.
Microsoft: just say no.
not even taking themselves seriously they donated their time & effort to develop what we see here. now they are being relegated to obscurity in favor of descriptors of unbelievably large #s..
> The open source documentation for Microsoft Azure is GitHub's fastest-growing open source project, followed by PyTorch (an open source machine learning library for Python).
Documentation is not code, it's writing and text. Microsoft Azure is closed-source, so this isn't inline documentation it's "how do I use this server infrastructure".
If Appel started using GitHub to track changes to their documentation on how to use an iPhone, iPad, Mac OSX, iTunes, App Store, iCloud, support questions and FAQs, etc, they would easily surpass Microsoft as "the biggest contributor to open source" as well.
Completely misleading.
'employees' they may be, but not microsoft's
the old reliable metric:
Lines of code.
Having thousands of "contributors" and pull requests don't really mean anything but pointless metrics. They seem more like metrics that can easily be gamed.
still you could logon & get to know some of your new friends? genuine hogwash it is then? the best your nutty buddies work could buy. so it's over? not buy a longshot, you get a new suite to wear & advertising royalties coming through every portal. no thanks, that stuff just clogs up the free flow of information. what's that? it was just a whim, nevermind.
$7.5 bn dollars is what redmond paid for this outfit. No surprise they're using it; might as well with the price they paid.
Which makes this list of jubilant "statistics" even more meaningless than usual. It does tell us EditorDavid is a fanboi.
Oppen sauce for tha win!
Report by company purchased by larger company makes larger company look good
Hmm... it's almost like they have some sort of influence over these things. I'm glad I Got The Facts. -_-
Anons need not reply. Questions end with a question mark.
”Microsoft now has more employees contributing to [the] open source projects on GitHub (which they recently purchased) than any other company or organization (7,700 employees), followed by Google (5,500), Red Hat (3,300), U.C. Berkeley (2,700), and Intel (2,200).”
FTFY.
Given that Red Hat has well over 12000 employees, it’s apparent the original statement was inaccurately worded.
#DeleteChrome
This is exactly correct. There's plenty of us who left github and are never coming back. Obviously the microsoft devs will be represented in the numbers, but we won't.
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Why did you open source goons charge for Github? It should have been free and open. Now Microsoft owns it..
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Everyone KNOWS you FAIL in IMPERSONATING ME (or STALKING me UNIDENTIFIABLE ac & 'supporting yourself' that way too)!
gweihir KNEW it (as you tried to "stir me up" vs. him before & we discussed it - he did NOT do it!) https://it.slashdot.org/commen...
* You're SICK IN THE HEAD & "obsessed" w/ STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous OR by IMPERSONATING me spouting stupid shit!
APK
P.S.=> You were useful to me though - thanks https://science.slashdot.org/c... getting ME to look into that & "lo & behold" HOSTS DO STOP Intel CPU speculative execution weakness (by preventing what uses it to attack you from getting to you (or you to it rather)) - & I KNOW that fact THAT IS KILLING YOU INSIDE stupid (you stopped trying it in your impersonations of me)... apk
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* ESPECIALLY WHEN I POINTED OUT YOU'RE HELPING ME HERE https://science.slashdot.org/c...
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APK
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Everyone KNOWS you IMPERSONATE me - gweihir PROVES it here https://it.slashdot.org/commen... chump!
LMAO - you are FAILING: It's ALL YOUR KIND ("lowest of the LOW" online & in life - the not-men, the bitchboys) KNOW how to do!
* ESPECIALLY WHEN I POINTED OUT YOU'RE HELPING ME HERE https://science.slashdot.org/c...
That 2nd link? LMAO - I totally KNOW it's KILLING YOU inside YOU ACTUALLY HELPED ME, lol - along w/ your CONSTANTLY BEING DOWNMODDED for IMPERSONATING ME & STALKING ME as you are now by UNIDENTIFIABLE ac, hahaha!
(You're a PUNY LITTLE WORM using "bitch tactics" FAILING that too that has to HIDE behind UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts STALKING ME, or by IMPERSONATING me (PROVING you WISH you were me, lol) & you've FAILED @ every turn vs. me - face facts: YOU ALWAYS WILL!)
APK
P.S.=> You LOSE, loser - the only thing you're good @ IS losing, lmao... apk
Algorithmically and ideologically, Microsoft is nowhere close to FSF.
Here's the algorithm:
for each product from Redmond
if superior open source alternative available then release the product as open source
else just keep quiet and audit
96 million repositories, and has over 31 million contributors
More repositories than users? I guess that 96 million figure counts the forked repositories that we have to create in order to submit pull requests.