The GitHub Innovation Graph serves as a foundational tool for research, analysis, and insights, facilitating a comprehensive understanding of global software development collaborations. In the latest quarterly update for Q3 2023, GitHub has introduced new data across eight key metrics—Git pushes, repositories, developers, organizations, programming languages, licenses, topics, and economy collaborators. Additionally, GitHub is enhancing how public software development activity is visualized, notably through the adoption of stacked area charts for showcasing data on economy collaborators. This update invites users to delve into these enriched visualizations and data sets.
Stacked area charts are employed to enhance the visibility of changes over time in the economy collaborators metric, which tracks Git pushes and pull requests sent by developers from one economy to repositories managed by others in different economies. This visualization proves particularly insightful when examining the impact of global events on software development collaboration. For instance, a significant uptick in collaboration directed towards Ukraine from developers worldwide was observed in Q1 2022, coinciding with the onset of the Russian invasion, indicating a surge of international support. This trend of increased collaboration has persisted, highlighting the need for further examination. The GitHub Innovation Graph provides an interactive platform for deeper exploration of this data, allowing users to manipulate the charts and download the data for personalized research.
Q3 2023 demonstrated the fluidity of the software development landscape. According to the 2023 Octoverse report, TypeScript surpassed Java for the first time as the third most popular language in open-source software projects on GitHub during this quarter.
In Q3 2023, the software licensing landscape saw some notable developments, as highlighted in the latest reports. For the first time, the MIT-0 and Mulan licenses appeared in the top licenses chart. The MIT-0 license, an iteration of the popular MIT license, eliminates the requirement to preserve copyright and license notices, and has been adopted by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for sample code. The Mulan license, which is similar to the Apache-2.0 license, is the first open source license available in both Chinese and English to be approved by the Open Source Initiative. This inclusion underscores the growing influence and contributions of the Chinese developer community.
We’re eager to hear your thoughts and suggestions for enhancing the GitHub Innovation Graph. Your experiences and ideas are invaluable to us, so please don’t hesitate to open an issue with your feedback on how you’ve utilized the data.
