Celebrating significant feature releases with a distributed team at GitHub involves a unique ritual where team members across the globe participate in a virtual toast. For major achievements, a new issue is created in a dedicated celebratory repository, and team members contribute by uploading photos of themselves holding a beverage, ranging from coffee mugs to bottles of Club Mate. This process, which takes about a day to complete due to the team's worldwide distribution, culminates in the creation of an animated GIF to commemorate the event, symbolizing the team's collective achievement and camaraderie.