Best of GitHub Blog — February 2022

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   Getting started with project planning on GitHub

   The ability to efficiently plan and manage work on GitHub has been growing in capabilities and power in recent months. As your team takes on the new calendar year with a full roadmap of ideas to start building, we thought we’d give you some tips on how to get started. We’re going to take you through how to use the new projects experience to tackle one feature to start, and use that planning process and apply it to future pieces of work.

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   Include diagrams in your Markdown files with Mermaid

   Mermaid is a JavaScript based diagramming and charting tool that takes Markdown-inspired text definitions and creates diagrams in the browser. It supports a bunch of different common diagram types for software projects, including flowcharts, UML, Git graphs, and even the dreaded Gantt chart.

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   The GitHub Stars in our eyes ⭐️

   GitHub Stars positively impact everyone around them from the projects that they’re building and maintaining to their experiences and mentoring along the way. Gina Häußge has been a positive role model in the community as the creator and full-time open source maintainer on OctoPrint. Eddie Jaoude has been traveling the world as a digital nomad and is focused on sharing all his love for open source through YouTube.

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   Codespaces for the largest repositories just got faster

   Codespaces is a one-click onboarding solution that enables developers to get started on a project quickly without performing any manual setup. Prebuilds were a huge part of how we meaningfully reduced the time-to-bootstrap in Codespaces for our core GitHub.com codebase.

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