If we want to share one of our projects in an open source fashion, we must version its code in a Git platform that allows the following elements:
- Public repositories; that is, we need to have access to the source code contained in this repository, but without necessarily being authenticated on this Git platform.
- Features and tools for code collaboration between the different members of this platform.
There are two main platforms that allow us to host open source tools: GitLab, which we looked at in the Using GitLab CI section in Chapter 6, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery, and GitHub, which is now the most used platform for open source projects.
Let's look at how to use GitHub so that we can host our project or contribute to another project.
