Hi guys, I'm a computer science major student in college and I have a GitHub Account but I'm not sure if I need to change my GitHub Account profile picture to a professional profile picture like in LinkedIn ? Does anyone know ? Also, does my GitHub username need to be professional ?

Thanks!

looking for ref architecture for windows self hosted runners on k8s (if at all possible/recommended)

So: I am inside my account settings:
https://github.com/settings/education/benefits, I then click on "here" and land on https://education.github.com/pack where I am trying to claim the "name.com" benefit, but when I click the login button I just get redirected back to https://github.com/settings/education/benefits

I tried to clear cache, cookies, multiple browsers and even incognito browser.

Back in july Github made a announcement about doing a giveaway limited to 1,000 CDs with your personal repo written on them

twitter post
form submission

And well considering we are now at the end of august I find it strange there is nothing online at all roughly after july 6th (the supposed end date for the form submission... although the form was pulled a day earlier so yea...) I personally just want to know what the CDs looked like lol

LeadDev’s AI Impact Report 2026 found that buying an AI tool doesn’t mean engineers will make it part of their daily workflow.

I've got these repository I've never created nor cloned that appeared a few days ago/weeks ago apparently.

I don't know what they are, they have pages with blog post (image below)

Does anybody ever encountered such a bug ?

I'm trying to log into github on desktop, but it keeps loading indefinitely. When it says I'm being redirected to the authorized application, it doesn't actually redirect me anywhere, so I click on the hyperlink, "this setup page", which brings up the github desktop window, this time with the message, "Failed retrieving authenticated user".
I suspect this might have something to do with me changing my user name recently.
Does anyone know what I can do to fix this?

I have full access to my GitHub account, but every time I try to delete it I get this error: "Cannot delete account. Please contact support."

Fair enough, so I contact them through ticket support, and I get ignored for several days. Email privacy, automated response and nothing. I just emailed dpo, but I have low hopes.

How else can I reach them? Has anyone had a similar issue? I don't have any outstanding bill, nor an ongoing subscription, nor can I identify any issue that would cause this. As a last resort I might file a complaint with the data protection agency of my country.

Hello! I am trying to publish my Minecraft mod to github repo.

I understand the difference between the software license and artwork license.

I've created LICENSE file on my github repo (which is MIT License). But now what next? How I can also clarify that assets are under creative commons license or smth like that?

Has anyone received the results? It was mentioned that today, Sunday, August 30th, the Oru applications would be returned.

It's probably been a week or so since I've noticed, but GitHub's search *does not* work.

I was looking at https://github.com/eclipse-tycho/tycho, and searched for "tycho.localArtifacts" (quotes included). No results. Impossible because I remember the codebase.

And in fact here it is.

This is just an example but I can reproduce in many other repositories. This used to work perfectly fine.

Anyone else can repro?

I have some repos in one organisation that, for historical reasons, are mirrored in another organisation. To do the mirroring, I have the following code setup as a GH action:

    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@3d3c42e5aac5ba805825da76410c181273ba90b1 # v7.0.1
        with:
          fetch-depth: 0  # required for mirroring, see https://stackoverflow.com/a/64272409/474349

      - name: Copy to Cloudyr
        if: github.repository_owner == 'Azure' && runner.os == 'Linux' && github.ref == 'refs/heads/master'
        env:
          token: "${{ secrets.ghPat }}"
        # git config hack required, see https://stackoverflow.com/q/64270867/474349
        run: |
          export CLOUDYR_REPO=$(echo $GITHUB_REPOSITORY | sed "s/Azure/cloudyr/")
          git config -l | grep 'http\..*\.extraheader' | cut -d= -f1 | \
            xargs -L1 git config --unset-all
          git push --prune https://token:$token@github.com/${CLOUDYR_REPO}.git +refs/remotes/origin/*:refs/heads/* +refs/tags/*:refs/tags/*

... more steps ...

This copies the repo from the Azure org to Cloudyr, and worked perfectly for years. Yesterday the GH dependabot made a PR to update all the pinned version numbers to the latest (v7.0.1 for the checkout action, as seen above). Since then, the step has failed at this point:

Run export CLOUDYR_REPO=$(echo $GITHUB_REPOSITORY | sed "s/Azure/cloudyr/")
# [debug]/usr/bin/bash -e /home/runner/work/_temp/9163680c-38a6-43e6-8b4f-4f62fa2c4dcc.sh
Error: Process completed with exit code 123.

You can see the repo and full log here.

Does anyone know what's causing this problem, and how I can fix it?

So i am trying to signup on github student developer offer and everything works fine except this one thing, the camera does not open and let me scan or take a picture of the document it is asking from me to verify. I tried this last month and thought it was maybe a glitch and will be fixed but no, it has not been. Tried it on multiple devices, desktop and phones but it is all the same. If anyone knows anything on how to fix it, please do let me know. Thank you.

I got some cool projects (I think )where I just need some help or for someone to just have a look and asses stuff maybe.
I get in my own bubble and sometimes hit a wall on a project where I don’t know what to do for the best.

What’s the expected decorum for asking for help or collaboration.

I’m fairly new to GitHub, like most people that were brought there by AI agents being able to code your every desire. Now what do I do? Are there people who like help or whatnot and how do I find them?

So many questions 🤪

Every Actions job in our GitHub Enterprise Cloud org has been refused at dispatch for 4+ hours. Jobs fail in under 10 seconds, zero steps executed, with this annotation:

"The job was not started because recent account payments have failed or your spending limit needs to be increased."

Neither cause applies. What we tried, re-testing dispatch after each step:

1. Raised the enterprise Actions budget to $2,001 while spend was $1,003.80 (50%). Still blocked.
2. Turned off "Stop usage when budget limit is reached". Still blocked.
3. Replaced the payment method with a different valid card. Still blocked.
4. Deleted the Actions budget entirely - page reads "No budgets created", usage explicitly unlimited. Still blocked.
5. Created an org-scoped $5,000 Actions budget with stop-usage off (a workaround others reported). Still blocked, budget at 0% consumed.

Billing state throughout: $0 past due, no failed or pending charges, valid card, no cost centers.

Support ticket is open at High priority, no response yet.

Has anyone gotten out of this without waiting days on support? If someone from support sees this ticket number: 4705945

an hour ago a got 8 emails about failed run in some of my old repos

i did not touch the repos

all the runs faild

all runs triggered by the last commit (from 2025/2024 in some repos)

except from one repo, where the action is triggered by new commit push by me (i did not do it), the commit message is "Update GitHub Actions workflow to grant write permissions for contents" the commit changed the action permission from read to write and wrote a .env file with:

`AUTH_API_KEY=...`

i changed my password, deleted all my pat and tokens, removed ssh keys, and oauth apps

in github's security log, there only claude oauth action regenerate an hour before the runs, and them me destroying all access

what should i do? did i do enough? how can i tell if something was extracted? or revoke it?

thank you

edit: it seem that all commits are my commits, just the date amended.

i still dont know how it happened, some of the repos are not even cloned on my pc.

Edit2: I have compared the commit from the repos on my pc, some of the commits have different date of GitHub, some have the old date. But all commits that are affected, have a different hash than on my pc.

i have write access.
I am using linux mint.
I am trying to use the github desktop app but cannot even search for the repository, and when i try using the link thing to get the repository it says i do not have access or that the repository might no longer exist(its the no access because i know it still exists)

I cannot clone it via the console using git clone and then the link. it asks me for my username which i can put in, then it asks for my password which i cannot input for some reason.

do i have to use a different piece of software or is there some solution to this issue that isnt using something other than github desktop?
if i have to use something other than github desktop what would be a good option?

I have been getting lots of e-mails from GH since may claiming that I exceeded the usage of GH Actions (I checked the domain btw, they really are from GH). The weird part is that the last time I sat down to make and upload any release artifacts was in December of last year, wich was a month where I sat down to build and upload lots of artifacts compared to the ammount I used to build

When I first got this alert was In May and it was during a workflow run that failed in front of me. I deleted lots of my older assets within older releases of my repos to see if it would fix the problem, but no, that did not fix the problem, so I spent the entire month of may without building anything waiting for next month for the usage to reset

3 months later (today) I checked and had an email in July claiming that I wad reaching 90% and another one this month claiming I reached 100%, I was like, WTF what is this, 'cause I haven't done anything that required a CI/CD job

I already checked all my repos just in case: for example, I have no cron jobs that have to do with uploading or downloading any heavy stuff, so IDK where is the usage coming from, I also checked all my workflows, only one of them was active and the last known run was in May

I cannot configure the budget because I do not have a payment method attached to my account, Acording to GH the free tier is 0.5 GB of "usage", but I haven't done a single significant thing on Github in the last 3 MONTHS, barely a few commits to my personal projects in June!

I submitted a support ticket eight hours ago, but GH hasn't answered yet

I won't be able to try use GH actions again until next month so I have plenty of time to try any suggestions

Thanks in advance

I'm using GitHub as a custom agent orchestration platform - and if it were stable I'd be making real progress but this is a joke.

I have no alternative but to start migrating away - even though I don't really have time. But I can't just take losses losing DAYS of work. I've already lost THREE full days and today looks like it's going to be a FORTH.

I think the biggest option is GitLab but can other people comment on their stability ? I've analyzed their status page and it's unclear how to quantify their downtime. They don't really have a historical view - which is somewhat of a red flag.

I'm curious what you guys are actually doing now.

If your GitHub Actions jobs are stuck in "Queued" or waiting for a runner, GitHub has now confirmed there is an incident.

GitHub says they identified an issue with a database primary and are failing over to a replica.

Actions is affected, and GitHub Pages is also experiencing degraded performance.

So if you have been checking your workflow, runner settings, permissions or billing, it might not be your configuration.

Status page:
https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/y1t7p9fzrlj2

Hopefully this saves someone else from spending an hour debugging their YAML.

Is anyone else having issues with schedule workflows not running? Basically they aren't getting triggered at all. I already checked the github status page and everything is "working fine" but at this point I don't trust that page.

Is anyone else having their actions permanently “Queued” as of the last half or so? Slophub refuses to run my actions. They were fine an hour ago