Achilleas Pipinellis - GitHub Essentials: Unleash the power of collaborative development workflows using GitHub, 2nd Edition

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Achilleas Pipinellis is an open source enthusiast who tries to get involved in as many projects as possible. He was introduced to Linux almost 10 years ago and hasn't looked back since. His distribution of choice is Arch Linux, a lightweight and flexible system that adheres to the KISS philosophy. He likes trying new technologies, especially those that require some sort of special deployment. He also enjoys writing technical guides and articles that help people to learn new stuff and strongly believes that comprehensive documentation is essential to a project's growth and recognition .

Umesh Ram Sharma has over 9 years, experience in architecture, design, and the development of scalable and distributed cloud-based applications. He has a master's degree in computer science and information technology. He worked as lead developer in companies in the past, and now works as a consultant for various clients. He's an expert in the utilization of the various offers of J2EE, Spring stack, AWS Cloud, MySql, and MongoDB, as well as various open source technologies and libraries.

He's the author of Practical Microservice and the reviewer of GitHub Essentials, first edition.

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GitHub is the leading code-hosting platform with literally millions of open source projects having their code hosted on it. In conjunction with Git, it provides the means for a productive development workflow and is the preferred tool among developers.

Starting with the basics of creating a repository, you will then learn how to manage the issue tracker, where your project can be discussed. Continuing our journey, we will explore how to use the wiki and write rich documentation that will accompany your project. Organization and team management will be the next stop, and then the pull requests, which made GitHub so well known.

Next, we will focus on creating simple web pages hosted on GitHub, and, lastly, we will explore the settings that are configurable for a user and a repository.

This book is intended for experienced or novice developers with a basic knowledge of Git. If you ever wanted to learn how big projects such as Twitter, Google, or even GitHub, collaborate on code, then this book is for you.

, Brief Repository Overview and Usage of the Issue Tracker, explains some of the main features GitHub provides and what you can make out of them. The issue tracker is the heart of communication between a project's developers and/or users. Consider it to be a notepad dedicated to each repository where you track bugs, reports, feature requests, and anything else that can be written down. GitHub has implemented many other features that sit on top of the issue tracker, such as labels and milestones, which provide the ability to better visualize and categorize all the issues.

, Using the Wiki and Managing Code Versioning, helps you learn how to create, edit, and maintain a wiki by providing a home for your documentation that will complement your project. You will also learn how to create a new release out of an existing branch or tag, accompanied by optional release notes. In this way, the end user can understand the changes from any previous versions.

, Managing Organizations and Teams, teaches you how to create and manage the organizations that you are the owner of. You will also learn how to create teams, add users to them, and assign different access levels according to your needs.