Most Popular on Github in 2012

    Github summed up the results of 2012 . The number of users increased by 2.3 times (2.76 million registrations), the number of repositories increased 2.7 times to 4.6 million. At this pace, Github could become, if not yet, the main locomotive of the Open Source movement.

    But the most interesting is not the number of users, but the list of popular Open Source projects that attracted the most attention in 2012. This list shows that now the most fashionable and most interesting. Look, maybe you missed something.

    The most tracked projects (by the number of "stars" for notifications).

    1. FortAwesome / FontAwesome : A cult font for Twitter Bootstrap. [ article on Habré ]
    2. textmate / textmate : TextMate - a graphical text editor for OS X 10.7+ [ article on Habr ]
    3. meteor / meteor : Meteor, a simple framework for creating effective web applications in pure Javascript [ Habr article ]
    4. saasbook / hw3_rottenpotatoes : a project used in the free course on creating Software as a Service applications using Ruby on Rails by BerkeleyX
    5. ivaynberg / select2 : Select2 - alternative to dropdowns (in jQuery)
    6. jkbr / httpie : HTTPie - Beautiful and color-coded display of HTTP-Request and HTTP-Response fields, human version of cURL
    7. maker / ratchet : prototyping iPhone applications from simple HTML, CSS and JS components [
      Habr article ]
    8. twitter / bower : package manager for the web
    9. Kicksend / mailcheck : jQuery plugin for checking email domain for typos [ Habr article ]
    10. jmechner / Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II : source codes of the Prince of Persia game for Apple II written in the 80s [ article on Habré ]

    Another rating - by the number of co-authors who have added at least a line of code.
    1. mxcl / homebrew : missing package manager for OS X
    2. rails / rails : Ruby on Rails
    3. CyanogenMod / android_frameworks_base : an alternative framework on Android
    4. CocoaPods / Specs : CocoaPods (cocoapods.org) specifications [ Habr article ]
    5. symfony / symfony : PHP framework Symfony [ hub hub ]
    6. zendframework / zf2 : Zend framework [ articles on Habré ]
    7. openstack / nova : OpenStack: free software for creating computing clouds and cloud storage, both public and private [ Habr article ], [ one more ]
    8. saltstack / salt : Salt - central system and configuration manager for infrastructure management
    9. TrinityCore / TrinityCore : TrinityCore - Open Source WoW Server Emulator
    10. github / hubot-scripts : universal bot on CoffeeScript from Github developers [ article on Habr ]

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