Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers

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Developers are pushing code and opening pull requests across economy borders at a rate GitHub has rarely seen. Outbound collaboration, the sum of git pushes and pull requests sent from developers in one economy to public repositories in another, grew by 16% from Q4 2025 to Q1 2026, according to the latest GitHub Innovation Graph data. That is the second highest quarter-over-quarter growth rate since 2020. Only Q2 2020 ran hotter, at 21%, back when … More →The post Open-source collaboration is growing worldwide and putting pressure on maintainers appeared first on Help Net Security.