> Another nice effect is that other people can carry the patch to the finish line if the original author stops caring or being involved. There are ways of pick

> Another nice effect is that other people can carry the patch to the finish line if the original author stops caring or being involved. There are ways of picking up a patch from an MIA author on github. Users can tick "allow maintainers to contribute" which allows maintainers of the root project access to push to their forks particular branch. If that fails, you can just get the diff from github and continue the work without losing the code. Git (and github) support multiple authors so you can still give credit where credit is due, however it isn't baked into the github permissions and UI. Obviously this case in particular is presented easier than on GitHub, but you still have the same options available to you.