Yeah, it was this really. The author had largely abandoned the project, someone emailed him asking for it (who had no github presence whatsoever), and the autho

Yeah, it was this really. The author had largely abandoned the project, someone emailed him asking for it (who had no github presence whatsoever), and the author obliged. Here, there's in theory the effort that the people being given the project have been more vetted and have to have some amount of github presence to get a repo.