GitHub at IQSS: The Tech Talk

IQSS projects on GitHub

• https://github.com/openscholar
• https://github.com/IQSS/dvn
• https://github.com/IQSS/Amelia
• https://github.com/IQSS/Zelig
• http://consilience.com
• https://github.com/cga-harvard/cga-worldmap

GitHub for issue tracking: an alternative to Bugzilla et al.

• https://github.com/openscholar/openscholar/issues

GitHub pull requests: the new "patches welcome"

• https://github.com/openscholar/openscholar/pulls
• https://travis-ci.org/openscholar/openscholar

GitHub Pages: free website hosting on any domain

• http://pages.github.com
• "Every GitHub Page is run through Jekyll when you push content to your repo" -- https://help.github.com/articles/using-jekyll-with-pages
• https://help.github.com/articles/creating-project-pages-manually

GitHub Gists

• https://github.com/blog/118-here-s-the-gist-of-it
• https://github.com/blog/1276-welcome-to-a-new-gist

GitHub API

"Do not implement any product that does not provide an API." -- http://blog.websages.com/2010/12/10/jameswhite-manifesto/

• http://developer.github.com
• https://github.com/zeligdev/build_zelig/blob/master/pkg-build#L143

GitHub for wikis

• https://github.com/openscholar/openscholar/wiki
• https://github.com/github/gollum (powers GitHub wikis)

Git branching strategies

• http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/

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