“Actions updates the pull request checklist the moment the check fails or succeeds. You’re able to get something out the door quickly without having to wait five or 10 minutes for an external service to update the pull request check so you can merge.”

“Each Action is its own little file—discrete and easy to understand.”

"A lot of us were already fans of GitHub. We care a lot about the tools we use every day. If we like a tool and it makes us happy and productive, we will want to invest in it."

"We need to work together with hardware vendors, developers, and businesses to achieve our vision."

“Some parts of the business need to be deploying software changes multiple times a day to stay current."

“It fits in well with our CI/CD process because Dependabot follows the same rules our developers follow.”

“If we deliver a website in an emergency 30 days late, the website won’t be helping our community.”

“In the past, we’ve had residents that were relying on tools to know whether or not they have electricity, things at the very basic levels related to health and public safety."

“For all the CI builds, checking code, and security scanning, developers built their code on their desktop and did a copy and paste to the server."

“We like to empower our employees to use the best tools to get their jobs done."

“We’re a developer-first organization and we live and breathe GitHub."

“Being able to see the code others have written—even if it’s poorly done—can help developers learn from each other and try new things. Using GitHub, we can send source code as a URL to less-experienced employees who can view it and get training as projects happen. Also, searching in GitHub …

“Until now, team members almost never reviewed code or provided feedback, but since the introduction of GitHub, people started using pull requests to provide code reviews. Recently, there’s been feedback coming in from other teams as well, so we’re seeing collaboration across departments—that almost never happened before.”

"We are already seeing our early community open source their own code to encourage growth in the group and have fun with people building on top of their code, Lynda said. For example, one Jibo developer produced an If This, Then That (IFTTT) capability for Jibo and shared the project. …

"As we got to know GitHub better, we began to develop process around the tool, and became more rigorous about release drafts, pull request labels, and milestones. As our engineering organization grew, we relied more heavily on teams and roles to control the flow of features."