Most popular on Github in 2012

Github summed up the results of 2012 . The growth in the number of users 2.3 times (2.76 million registrations), the number of repositories increased 2.7 times to 4.6 million. At this rate, Github can turn, if it has not yet become, into 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 : the cult font for Twitter Bootstrap. [ article on Habré ]
2. textmate / textmate : TextMate is a graphical text editor for OS X 10.7+ [ Habré article ]
3. meteor / meteor : Meteor, a simple framework for creating effective web applications in pure Javascript [ article on Habré ]
4. saasbook / hw3_rottenpotatoes : a project that is used in the free course on how to create Software as a Service applications using Ruby on Rails from BerkeleyX
5. ivaynberg / select2 : Select2 - alternative to drop-down lists (on jQuery)
6. jkbr / httpie : HTTPie - Beautiful and colorful display of HTTP-Request and HTTP-Response fields, the “human” version of cURL
7. maker / ratchet : prototyping iPhone applications from simple HTML, CSS and JS components [
   
   article on Habré ]
8. twitter / bower : batch manager for web
9. Kicksend / mailcheck : jQuery plugin for checking email-domain for typos [ article on Habré ]
10. jmechner / Prince-of-Persia-Apple-II : The source of the game Prince of Persia for Apple II, written in the 80s [ article on Habré ]

Another rating - by the number of collaborators who added at least a line of code.

1. mxcl / homebrew : missing batch manager for OS X
2. rails / rails : Ruby on Rails
3. CyanogenMod / android_frameworks_base : alternative Android framework
4. CocoaPods / Specs : CocoaPods (cocoapods.org) specifications [ article on Habré ]
5. symfony / symfony : Symfony PHP framework [ Hub Hub ]
6. zendframework / zf2 : Zend framework [ articles on Habré ]
7. openstack / nova : OpenStack: Free software for creating computing clouds and cloud storages, both public and private [ article on Habré ], [ 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 : a universal CoffeeScript bot from Github developers [ article on Habré ]