Data Practitioners Prefer to Collaborate on GitHub
Although the collaboration tools space is getting more crowded, machine learning and data practitioners still prefer GitHub to other tools, says the latest survey by Kaggle.
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Look Past the Bros, and Concerns About Open Source Inclusion Remain
Women, non-binary, LGBTQ+, and people with disabilities were twice as likely to have experienced threats of violence in the context of an open source project.
Takeaways from GitHub’s Octoverse Report
Developers who spend most of their time doing software development for a private company’s repositories (47%) or are focused on an open source project while working for a private company (5.5%) behave differently than those other professional developers (13.5%) and students (29%) that are still engaged in the open source community.
Takeaways from GitHub’s Octoverse Report
Developers who spend most of their time doing software development for a private company’s repositories (47%) or are focused on an open source project while working for a private company (5.5%) behave differently than those other professional developers (13.5%) and students (29%) that are still engaged in the open source community.
GitLab Thrives in China and with Open Source
The DevOps platform’s “land and expand” strategy has helped it grow quickly and reach into countries where competitors like GitHub and Atlassian have struggled to gain traction.
Making Sense of the GitHub Octoverse Report
A few quick takes on GitHub’s annual report includes insights on non-U.S. contributions, developers supporting dependencies and the number of private repos.
A Reason to Not Hate Facebook: Open Source Contributions
When it comes to open source contributions, Facebook is above par.
Comparing Corporate Open Source Contributions on GitHub Organizations
Open Hub data indicates that 61 percent of the most active organizations on GitHub organizations are commercial enterprises. Most of these companies are working on projects where almost all of the contributors are also employees.
Asian Developers Are Underrepresented in the Data
GitHub and Stack Overflow do not represent a true picture of the world’s developers because not everyone uses these sites. Twenty-one percent of active GitHub users are in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region and a 50,000+ person StackOverflow survey reported 22 percent of respondents coming from […]
Usernames: Accountability vs Privacy
Fifty-one percent of open source developers are required to provide personal or work information online as part of their job. Sixty-one percent say people should be able to contribute code without attribution to remain anonymous. These are findings from a recently released survey of over 5,000 GitHub users. Still […]
TypeScript, TypeScript, TypeScript
We’ve been actively covering TypeScript but it wasn’t until recently that we saw stats showing just how popular it is. Stack Overflow added this JavaScript superset to its Developer Survey 2017, and boom — it is being used by 9.5 percent of developers, making it the ninth most used language […]