

was originally a flat organization with no middle managers in other words, "everyone is a manager" ( self-management). GitHub has an annual keynote called GitHub Universe. Hyett and Scott Chacon after it had been available for a few months as a beta release.

The site was launched in April 2008 by Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath, P. ĭevelopment of the platform began on October 19, 2007. It is the largest source code host as of November 2021. As of January 2023, GitHub reported having over 100 million developers and more than 372 million repositories, including at least 28 million public repositories. It is commonly used to host open source software development projects. Headquartered in California, it has been a subsidiary of Microsoft since 2018. It provides the distributed version control of Git plus access control, bug tracking, software feature requests, task management, continuous integration, and wikis for every project. ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ t h ʌ b/ ) is an Internet hosting service for software development and version control using Git. Optional (required for creating and joining repositories, and browsing all repositories.)
