This is a great write up of just some of the challenges that open source project creators face.

I see a lot of people on this thread of calling for modifications to githubs systems. I really don't see them doing that.

maybe I misunderstand GitHub but as much as I like, enjoy and benefit from GitHub I just think their mission is to cater to the long tail as much as possible. and well maybe somewhat controversial I don't actually think their main play is enabling seamless collaboration I think that's just sort of a necessity for what they're really trying to do. I'm not sure what they're really trying to do but one can imagine there must be some sort of profitable businesses where you have all the world's developers on your system.

I think basically GitHub still wants to create a very sort of simple consumer focus product to maximize the quantity of interactions. they're not necessarily trying to lock down and restrict all those things you know and and and provide tools to upregulate the quality of that.

I'm sure that is a misrepresentation of only a small slice of github's strategy, but anyway I think it's an interesting thing to consider. I just basically don't see them landing a whole lot of features that provide really granular controls to all this stuff because I think they'd be worried that this is going to get in the way of the sort of simple understanding of the uniformity of their product and it's going to cause too much you know confusion and raise the barriers to long tail large quantity collaboration.

I could be totally misreading them but that's my feeling about it.