Not so. The "Dear Github" post is all about bug tracking facilities in github, nothing more. Previous versions of Github had a more functional issue tracker - i

Not so. The "Dear Github" post is all about bug tracking facilities in github, nothing more. Previous versions of Github had a more functional issue tracker - it went largely ignored and github wisely removed the unwanted cruft from their code base. Github is not JIRA. OSS projects are free to use whatever bug-tracking facilities they choose. Just like everyone else. I would like to see better API's from github to support this. On to Linus. There are 12000 contributors to the linux kernel, If Linus sucks at anything, it would be his ability to "chase away everyone". You seem to be of the opinion that if there were more than 12k Linux would somehow be "better". This is entirely conjecture on your part, and many would argue that Linus is fact too lenient as it stands.