The changing GitHub community
- Developers remain the largest category of users, though it is descreasing from a high of 60% in 2016 to 54% in 2020.
- Profiles that include education. up from 17% in 2016 to 23% in 2020.
- The third largest category is data, with 7% of users in 2016 and 10% of users in 2020.
GitHub in education: serving the next generrattiion
TensorFlow and COVID communities
- developers are the most common users in the TensorFlow and COVID communities
Community actions, patterns, and insights
The Future of open source
- 56M developers
《Finding balance between work and play》
Executive summary
- 34% more pull requests when teams automate workflows
- 18% faster pull request merges when teams automate
Key findings
- Samll pusll requests drive innovation and productivity.
- Automation drives productivity gains and imporoves developer experience.
- Open source is a greate escape when everyone s stuck at home
- Developer activity highlights the importance of flexibility and personal solutions
Take action
- Manage your energy.(working from home)
- Be flexible to find unique solutions for the best outcomes.
- Use automation and small pull requests to ship better code faster.
- Embrace and support collaboration and open source.
Developer activity
- China’s Golden Week
- US Thanksgiving
- Lunar New Year
- Chinese Labour Day