>even better, don't bother the original project, but just announce your fork over other channels This is a rather bizarre interpretation of nice behavior: Make

>even better, don't bother the original project, but just announce your fork over other channels This is a rather bizarre interpretation of nice behavior: Make a very cool modification to a project, but don't even bother to tell the original maintainers/authors? Github Issues is a perfectly reasonable place for this. Maybe the mailing list would be better, but, shrug. Issues != Bugs, by the way. There's a reason it's called Issues. And it's basically the only way to have a discussion on github about anything whether it's an issue or not. Also, some maintainers get mad if you send a pull request without doing an issue first, so there's no right way.