Hands-on GitHub Actions (Getting Started with GitHub Actions Workflows)

Git is a source code management system designed around the idea that branching and merging should actually work. The result is that you're likely to have many more open branches than you otherwise would using a system such as Subversion. But how can you or the rest of your team quickly get up to speed on all of your branching activity? That's where GitHub's network graph feature comes in handy.

BioPerl has migrated to git and GitHub!

Say you have a bug report or feature request to make to a package.How can you use information on GitHub to manage your expectations (will there be a quick fix) and actions (should you go ahead and fork the repository)?In this post, we shall go over sources of information and explain how they can be used.In the end, there is no magical recipe, except perhaps graciousness, as software is made by humans.