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Most open source development takes place outside of github. It is a very valley-centric thing. You'll find a ton of life changing stuff on SourceForge and rand

• keeganpoppen 12y ago
  to be fair, i assume he's only asking because github starring something is actual a fairly good way of keeping track of projects in the way he's talking about. i agree that it sounds a bit presumptuous to say "where's the github mirror, mr. unpaid contributor to open source project", but on the flip side it's a fair point in terms of potentially capitalizing on exposure for a project. and also it's very true that you can sometimes find the best code in very unassuming places.
• twic 12y ago
  I'd be really interested to see statistics on this. I don't work in Silicon Valley, and almost all of the stuff people around me are publishing is on GitHub.
• icebraining 12y ago
  Notice cordite said a Github mirror, not the Github mirror. You don't need to have your main development happen on Github to have a mirror there, just someone mirroring from the main server. See, for example, the Linux kernel.
• pekk 12y ago
  That's not entirely fair. Github is not a valley-centric thing, it is used by a large proportion of projects started since 2008 or so.