I feel GitHub is the best thing that ever happened to the Open Source Community. Before, it was freshmeat and, for collaboration, arbitrary mailing lists each

I feel GitHub is the best thing that ever happened to the Open Source Community. Before, it was freshmeat and, for collaboration, arbitrary mailing lists each enforcing their same "standards" to send in patches. I can only assume the process was sometimes smooth, sometimes terrible. In any case: I never did it. In the GitHub era, I have regularly made pull requests. Small ones on a maybe weekly basis, larger ones twice a year or so. I feel confident in the estimate that the number of contributors has grown by at least an order of magnitude, and that GitHub was a significant factor in this development. Gitlab, meanwhile, started out as so obvious a clone their CSS still had classes named "gh-large-..." months after launch. Then, they would frequently have the audacity to complain when GitHub copied some minor feature they had first implemented.