GitHub flow: sign up and provide a username/password, magic happens and collaboration is easy Gnus flow: signup for mail service that lets you use a bunch of

GitHub flow: sign up and provide a username/password, magic happens and collaboration is easy Gnus flow: signup for mail service that lets you use a bunch of other gnu tools and client side software you have to install on every machine you want to do any kind of collaborative work from, write some code to filter your email, etc., etc. and then figure out the individual mailing list nuances (patches go here, discussion here, etc. - they're all potentially unique and beautiful snowflakes!). I'm not trying to yuck anyone's yum, but you being the only user you care about is specifically why GitHub has become what it has. They care about all the potential users :)