Best of GitHub Blog — June 2022

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   GitHub Copilot is generally available to all developers

   GitHub Copilot is an editor extension that suggests code in real time. It's free to use for verified students and maintainers of popular open source software. Starting today, it’s now available to all developers, and we’ll offer it to companies later this year.

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   Write Better Commits, Build Better Projects

   Commits in Git repositories are more than just save points or logs of incremental progress in a larger project. Over time, commits should tell a story of the history of your repository and how it came to be the way that it currently is. It’s been my experience that commits are most effective when they’re tweaked and polished to deliberately convey a message.

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   Introducing GitHub Skills

   GitHub Skills is built with GitHub Actions for a smooth, fast, and customizable learning experience. We’re launching with courses for some of the most popular topics, from “Introduction to GitHub” to “Continuous integration” You can use our free, open source course template to build your own courses for your project, team, or company.

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   Git Merge 2022

   Git Merge returns on September 14-15 in Chicago, Illinois. Tickets and registration details will be available soon. As always, we will donate all proceeds from Git Merge tickets to the Software Freedom Conservancy to support their work in improving and defending free and open source software.

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   Introducing Achievements: recognizing the many stages of a developer’s coding journey

   GitHub is launching a beta version of its achievements feature. Developers will be able to show off their achievements on their profiles. They can also share them on social media to share the new badges they’ve earned. Displaying achievements on your profile is completely optional, by default, they can be seen by anyone viewing your public profile.

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   Sunsetting Atom

   GitHub is sunsetting Atom and will archive all projects under the organization on December 15, 2022. Atom has not had significant feature development for the past several years. GitHub will continue to inform Atom users of the sunset in the product and on atom.io.

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   Thank you to our maintainers

   GitHub is distributing $500,000 across the over 900 maintainers of our identified open source dependencies who are also signed up with GitHub Sponsors. From the U.S. to Japan to Brazil, if you’re one of the people or projects we identified then you will get a confirmation about the sponsorship before the end of June.

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   A beginner’s guide to CI/CD and automation on GitHub

   GitHub Actions is a native CI/CD tool that runs alongside your code in GitHub. A GitHub Actions workflow can be designed to respond to any webhook event on GitHub. You can write your own workflows (or customize an existing workflow) in easy-to-use YAML files.

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