When you hear Linus speak about his workflow when working on the kernel, he always mentions his "Web of Trust" concept. I think the problem is not inherent to g

When you hear Linus speak about his workflow when working on the kernel, he always mentions his "Web of Trust" concept. I think the problem is not inherent to github, but rather to the idea we have when we foolishly think of the possibilities combining git and a social network. The truth is, programming is still very much about people, and you need to trust the people in order to pull their code. Trusting the people goes beyond trusting the code. If you give me great code, then disappear or decide to make an unmergeable fork, it will harm my project as described in the article. On the other hand, if I get to know the people behind the pull requests, learn to talk to them and get them to be more involved in the project, then the risks exposed can be easily circumvented.