This is a tragic, wrongheaded move, and I say that as a big Git enthusiast (but a Github hater, to be fair...) I don't think PyPy gains anything from this, not

This is a tragic, wrongheaded move, and I say that as a big Git enthusiast (but a Github hater, to be fair...) I don't think PyPy gains anything from this, not even a reduction in the annoying messages that have been psychologically torturing the maintainers. If anything, you're just opening yourself up to more common and frequent low-investment pestering.