Well git was invented for Linux kernel development, and Linus had his workflows dialed in years before GitHub was even founded (probably before Tom & Chris even

Well git was invented for Linux kernel development, and Linus had his workflows dialed in years before GitHub was even founded (probably before Tom & Chris even started using Ruby). With his tree of lieutenants and long-standing email based workflow of course GitHub is going to be weaksauce for him. But as for you, I'm a bit confused as to what you really want. You say issues are unusable, which I can only assume is because they do not have the extensive feature set of proper bug tracking systems, but then you also say that pull requests are too much work. GitHub is clearly trying to do for programmers a bit of the 80/20 thing that Apple does for consumers, or what 37signals did for project management—give simplified tools and workflows that are easy to learn and use even if they aren't suitable for all use cases. If you're a long-term *nix hacker with a keyboard fetish then I can see how it might not seem that novel or useful, but for new developers coming up without the baggage, GitHub is bringing tremendous value, as demonstrated by the surging user uptake.