Konrad Lawson introduces us to the social aspects of GitHub through forks and pull requests.

A GitHub project is an adaptable spreadsheet, task board, and road map that integrates with your issues and pull requests on GitHub to help you plan and track your work effectively.

The feature is a direct response to user requests, and is something GitHub says will be the first of many improvements to Issues and Pull Requests.

GitHub today announced Suggested Changes: a new feature that promises to make it easier to implement and action changes in pull requests. Here’s how it works.

This feature integrates with GitHub’s protected branches, Berman said — if the reviewer requested changes to a pull request on a protected branch, the pull request can be blocked.

GitHub has introduced draft pull requests to handle work-in-progress scenarios where you might want to open a PR or start a conversation with your teammates before your code is ready to be reviewed.

A pull request is GitHub speak for a suggested code fix, or patch. The irony is that Torvalds invented Git, the software at the heart of the GitHub website.

GitHub will roll out dependency review, a security assessment for pull requests, in the coming weeks to developers. SEE: Meet the hackers who earn millions for saving the web, one bug at a time ...

GitHub is currently down, affected by a worldwide outage preventing access to the website, issuing commits, cloning projects, or performing pull requests.