GitHub Primer

The github repository will serve as a location for you to turn-in your homework, and allow the instructors to push back code modifications and suggestions.

Our team’s work relies a lot on GitHub Actions. Besides the usual workflows to check our code for errors after each push 1 , we also have many workflows set up to run on a schedule.

Two years ago GitHub introduced the ability to sponsor an open source contributor – person or organization. They handle (and pay for) the payment logistics for a one-time or regular contribution. A blog post from June 2019 describes the thinking of the GiHub Sponsors team that went into this service, and the practicalities of using the service are documented here.

Ein Fehler ist aufgetreten. Sieh dir dieses Video auf www.youtube.com an oder aktiviere JavaScript, falls es in deinem Browser deaktiviert sein sollte. A source code version control system is an essential ingredient of software development. But it's just low-level technology that doesn't change the way you think about creating software and so can safely be ignored.

VertNet has announced that they have implemented issue tracking using GitHub. This is a really interesting development, as figuring out how to capture and make use of annotations in biodiversity databases is a problem that's attracting a lot of attention.