They mention requiring human approval for a new repo on Source forge, but that was just a symptom of the fact that projects names came from a global namespace.

They mention requiring human approval for a new repo on Source forge, but that was just a symptom of the fact that projects names came from a global namespace. It's hard to overstate how challenging this was. Some little exploration required this globally unique name and huge burden to come up with one. That was all before even applying. One of the truly genius moves that Github made, was to put projects behind each account namespace. It's my view that this is one of the core things that made GitHub so attractive to people.