>First, open source doesn't start and end with GitHub. I didn't mean to imply it is, but if an open source project finds it easier to use one platform (such as

>First, open source doesn't start and end with GitHub. I didn't mean to imply it is, but if an open source project finds it easier to use one platform (such as github), trying to subvert that by emailing patches sounds like a very annoying thing to do. It seems similar to submitting pull requests to the Linux Kernel on GitHub, which explicitly requests that you submit patches on the mailing list.