"I am maintaining a new Fork of Rinari hosted at github http://github.com/eschulte/rinari/tree/master. This is a fork of Phil's Rinari fork which is also hosted available at github..."
-- Rinari: Ruby on Rails Minor Mode for Emacs
* http://rinari.rubyforge.org/index.html

The computer code sharing site GitHub's first government liaison says he hopes to be a bridge between the government and open source communities on legislation and regulations, not just code. "What if that entire legislative process happened in some sort of open, collaborative way? What if the congressman said ‘hey, the bill’s on GitHub and you’re welcome to make a pull request?’"

San Francisco, CA and Sydney, NSW, Australia -- Today Atlassian, makers of JIRA, FishEye and other software development collaboration tools, announced it has acquired Bitbucket.org. With over 60,000 accounts, Bitbucket is the premier hosted code collaboration provider for the Mercurial distributed version control system (DVCS).

When it comes to government IT in 2013, GitHub may have surpassed Twitter and Facebook as the most interesting social network. “We’re reaching a tipping point where we’re seeing more collaboration not only within government agencies, but also between different agencies, and between the government and the public.”

"Perl 5's source code is no longer locked into the odious proprietary Perforce repository where it's been hosted for years. It's now hosted in the git distributed version control system. This is a huge win..."

GitHub has enhanced the read-only Subversion support that launched on April Fool's day and added write support

The GitHub developers have announced that their project repository service has reached a major milestone: the one millionth git repository was created over the weekend

"Mozilla Labs, Mozilla's research and development section, has announced that, based on the popularity of the Git distributed version control system, it is now offering an experimental fork for all Mozilla Labs projects and experiments on project hosting service GitHub...." — See also: «...Moving t

"I'm back in Seattle after an excellent RubyConf in Orlando, FL. These events are always a treat, and this year's was no exception. Last year the dominant theme was alternate implementations, and this time around it has become an ingrained assumption rather than something that needed to be stated.