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GitHub (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ t h ʌ b /) is a developer platform that allows developers to create, store, manage and share their code.It uses Git software, providing the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project.
The increasing popularity of open-source DVCSs such as git, and then, later, DVCS hosting sites, the most popular of which is GitHub (founded 2008), incrementally reduced the barriers to participation in free software projects still further. With sites like GitHub, no longer did potential contributors have to do things like hunt for the URL for ...
In May 2019, GitHub, a Git-based software repository hosting, management and collaboration platform owned by Microsoft, launched a Sponsors program that allows people who support certain open source projects hosted on GitHub to donate money to developers who contribute and maintain the project. Crowdsourcing
Diem (formerly known as Libra) was a permissioned blockchain -based stablecoin payment system proposed by the American social media company Facebook. The plan also included a private currency implemented as a cryptocurrency . The launch was originally planned to be in 2020, [3] [4] but only rudimentary experimental code was released.
GitHub reaches 7 million projects by their users. September: Growth (user) GitHub reaches 4 million active users. 20 December: Userbase: Facebook publishes a blog post about its progress in open-source software. At the time, Facebook has over 90 Git repositories hosted on GitHub. 22 December: Growth (employee) At this time, GitHub has 234 ...
Open-source software ( OSS) is computer software that is released under a license in which the copyright holder grants users the rights to use, study, change, and distribute the software and its source code to anyone and for any purpose. [1] [2] Open-source software may be developed in a collaborative, public manner.
Mercurial is a distributed revision control tool for software developers. It is supported on Microsoft Windows, Linux, and other Unix-like systems, such as FreeBSD and macOS . Mercurial's major design goals include high performance and scalability, decentralization, fully distributed collaborative development, robust handling of both plain text ...
DeepFace is a deep learning facial recognition system created by a research group at Facebook. It identifies human faces in digital images. The program employs a nine-layer neural network with over 120 million connection weights and was trained on four million images uploaded by Facebook users. [1] [2] The Facebook Research team has stated that ...