Don't know if github made things easier or harder. Want to contribute a patch? Fork the code, make your changes, do a pull request... In the old days, we just

Don't know if github made things easier or harder. Want to contribute a patch? Fork the code, make your changes, do a pull request... In the old days, we just sent a diff to the maintainer and that was that. It could either be accepted or it wasn't. It was quick and simple. In the old days, opensource projects would also have a site, with downloadable artifacts, and wouldn't present the user with a source tree which may or may not work, and with millions of forks leaving the user doubting which is the official one. It is a dumping ground of code.