Overview
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- Module 1: Learn to use key GitHub features, including issues, notifications, branches, commits, and pull requests.
- Communicate with the project community in issues
- Manage notifications for project events
- Create branches to manage work in parallel
- Make commits to update project source
- Introduce changes with pull requests
- Deploy a web page to GitHub Pages
- Module 2: Learn to manage a successful InnerSource program on GitHub through effective discoverability, guidance, and maintenance.
- Contrast user versus organization owned projects
- Make recommendations about the number of GitHub organizations you should have
- Create discoverable repositories
- Create robust repository READMEs
- Use issue and pull request templates
- Build transparency into repositories
- Measure the success of InnerSource within your organization
- Distribute your InnerSource toolkit
- Module 3: Learn to create a successful open-source program by establishing contributor guidance, following proven processes, and leveraging community standards.
- Assess your organization's existing open-source efforts
- Establish the goals of an open-source program
- Create a repository for your open-source program, complete with contributing and communication guidelines, codes of conduct, templates, and maintainer guides
- Abide by existing open-source licenses
- Choose a license for releasing an open-source project
- Module 4: Learn to upload your existing project to GitHub.
- Identify where your code is stored
- Introduce code to a repository
- Create important Git files like a .gitignore
- Identify important next steps to manage your repository and add community involvement
- Module 5: Learn to move your existing project to GitHub from a legacy version control system.
- Prepare your project for a successful migration
- Handle any binary files currently stored in your project
- Create important Git files like a .gitignore
- Import your project to GitHub
- Module 6: Learn best practices for building, hosting, and maintaining a secure repository on GitHub.
- Identify the tools and GitHub features to establish a secure development strategy
- Enable vulnerable dependency detection for private repositories
- Detect and fix outdated dependencies with security vulnerabilities
- Automate the detection of vulnerable dependencies with Dependabot
- Add a security policy with a SECURITY.md file
- Remove a commit exposing sensitive data in a pull request
- Keep sensitive files out of your repository by applying the use of a .gitignore file
- Remove historical commits exposing sensitive data deep in your repository
- Module 7: Learn how to contribute to an open-source project on GitHub.
- Find open-source projects and tasks to contribute to in GitHub.
- Create pull requests to open-source projects.
- Implement best practices to communicate with open-source maintainers and perform code reviews.
- Find and engage with open-source communities.
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