For an example you can look at http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html That's a website for a highly used libxml2 library. I

For an example you can look at http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html http://www.xmlsoft.org/downloads.html That's a website for a highly used libxml2 library. I believe you would still just send your patch to the mailing list, or possibly the main person in charge. So big or non trivial projects had their own websites, and mailing lists. I don't really know what a small project would have. For example yesterday I made a page that converts any time in human readable format into local time. (useful for when you get email for a meeting in some awkward timezone) Since now we have what we have, I put it in bitbucket, few years ago, I would just have the source on my PC until it gets lost.