GitHub Resources
resources.github.com · Company blog · on HN since 2017
GitHub Resources is GitHub's own site of guides, announcements, and learning material on Actions, Copilot, innersource, and engineering practice.
What HN saysHN links it for official GitHub statements, such as Actions pricing changes and Copilot IP indemnification terms.
25HN people shared it
12linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Pricing Changes for GitHub Actions5 people · 802 points · first shared 2025 · 817 comments on HN
- 2Coming soon: Showcase your expertise with GitHub Certifications2 people · 3 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 3An Introduction to Innersource2 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 4GitHub Secure Open Source Fund2 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 5The art of engineering team focus: less is more1 people · 34 points · first shared 2025 · 3 comments on HN
- 6GitHub guide to commit signing [pdf]1 people · 3 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
- 7GitHub's internal playbook for building an AI-powered workforce1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 8Development Workflows in (For) Data Science [pdf]1 people · 2 points · first shared 2019 · discussion on HN
- 9Golden Rules of Building Online Communities That Matter1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 10GitHub: Why developer satisfaction is your best productivity metric1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 11An Introduction to Innersource(2018)1 people · 1 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 12GitHub and IntelliJ IDEs1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 13Measuring developer experience beyond system metrics1 people · 1 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 14Compare GitHub to other DevOps solutions1 people · 1 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 15Actions1 people · first shared 2023
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falcor84 · 2026-02-12
If you pay for Copilot Business/Enterprise, they actually offer IP indemnification and support in court, if needed, which is more accountability than you would get from human contributors.
https://resources.github.com/learn/pathways/copilot/essentials/establi…
nfw2 · 2026-01-09
6LLvveMx2koXfwn · 2025-12-18
From the horses mouth as it were: https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-a…
axelfontaine · 2025-12-18
ChrisArchitect · 2025-12-17
They've also updated the original resource page but a new url serves our purposes better https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-a…
gaigalas · 2025-12-16
> TL;DR GitHub is adding a $0.002-per-minute fee on all GitHub Actions usage, so the control plane is no longer free.
That's not true for _all GitHub Actions usage_.
https://resources.github.com/actions/2026-pricing-changes-for-github-a…
> Standard GitHub-hosted or self-hosted runner usage on public repositories will remain free.
securesaml · 2025-08-29
Google has a program where you can submit patches to OSS projects (including libxslt) https://bughunters.google.com/about/rules/open-source/4928084514701312…
The patches need to fix a systemtic design flaw (which seems like you are trying to do).
You are eligible even if you are a contributor:
> Q: I'm a core developer working on one of the in-scope projects. Do my own patches qualify?
> A: They most certainly do.
Additionally, github has: https://resources.github.com/github-secure-open-source-fund/
Companies have changed after seeing the log4j incident and are open to funding open source security (but we still need more)
tcmart14 · 2025-06-08
I don't know if this explains all the funding. But there definitely was a year where the employees at Microsoft voted to give funding to FreeBSD. I don'w know if it's a thing, but apparently Microsoft had this thing where every year, or quarter, employees could sort of nominate and vote on open source projects that Microsoft would donate to[1]. And FreeBSD one year won some funding out of that.
[1] https://resources.github.com/open-source/microsoft-foss-fund/
But yea, I'm not sure if they have a reoccurring donation to FreeBSD or not. Looking at the FreeBSD Foundation, they are listed as sponsors for 2025/2024/2023. So my guess is that they do have some form of reoccurring donation.
_gabe_ · 2023-03-29
> how is it in just five years microsoft has managed to pedal this once vibrant and bustling community of developers and creatives into a roaring dumpster fire of sketcky GPL breaking copilot AI and endless seemingly random outages.
I mean Github Actions was released 5 years ago[0]. I imagine the infrastructure for actions is more susceptible to outages than the fairly simple features Github offered previously. It makes sense that the number of outages would increase with the additional complexity in the infrastructure.
[0]: https://resources.github.com/devops/tools/automation/actions/
westurner · 2022-04-12
"What is GitHub Discussions? A complete guide" https://resources.github.com/devops/process/planning/discussions/
> GitHub Discussions vs. GitHub Issues: When to use each: When and how to use Discussions and Issues on a project—and how to turn a Discussion into an Issue (and vice versa).
Looks like they also support Polls now. There should be an obligatory note about e-voting, private keys (SK/PK), ZK, and "master keys" in non- Zero Trust Systems . https://github.com/topics/e-voting
Zero-trust security model: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero_trust_security_model
"What’s new in GitHub Discussions: Organization Discussions, polls, and more" (2022-04)
https://github.blog/2022-04-12-whats-new-in-github-discussions-organiz…
Unfortunately code can indeed generate code.
kick · 2020-05-06
GitHub has always been a proprietary company unconcerned with user freedom.
They actually have a whitepaper that predates acquisition on exactly this:
https://resources.github.com/whitepapers/introduction-to-innersource/
The company has always been unethical; Microsoft didn't change that.
stablemap · 2017-08-04
They put up recordings later, hosted on Vimeo; for example:
https://resources.github.com/webcasts/GitHub-communicating-with-issues…
With some digging you can get an MP4.