Guidance

GitHub

GitHub provides the developer community an open-source code hosting platform for version control and collaboration.

GitHub provides several guides to assist in creating a repository: Visit GitHub documentation for more information about their platform.

Enterprise Administrator designation In your agency’s GitHub:

• You must designate a GitHub Enterprise Administrator (primary and alternate) to own and maintain their GitHub source code repository.
• Each GitHub Enterprise Administrator must maintain a departmental log-in credential (username, password).
• The Agency/state GitHub Enterprise Administrator has the ability to grant permissions to other GitHub users.

Organizational and repository guidelines To improve use and findability of your code solutions:
Organization

• Name: Use the name of your organization after your Agency, Department, or Office to show clear ownership.
• Description: Add a meaningful description of your organization and what solutions users can expect to find.

• Name: Use short descriptive names to clearly denote the name of the solution repository.
• About area:
  • Add a clear and concise description about what your solution repository is and why its useful.
  • Be specific about what it is, and what it does.

Once you GitHub Organization and repositories are set up, and descriptions have been added, compete the Share code form to be added to the portal.