Because the writer, Bryan Clark, is Director of Product for OSS Maintainers and is trying to contextualize the move to feature the company he works for, not the

Because the writer, Bryan Clark, is Director of Product for OSS Maintainers and is trying to contextualize the move to feature the company he works for, not the code thats been around for far longer. "apache moves to github" makes it sound like apache made a rote and boring switch, which this sort of is. They just as easily could have moved to sourceforge or gitlab. joining a team has implications that github (c) works together with open source. while it certainly hosts a lot of it, github isnt open source. Headlining this as your "open source community" also helps avoid the uncomfortable issue of an open source product moving to a completely proprietary system for CI and development.