Thanks for articulating it better than I could have. This is exactly my sentiment. There's been over the last two years an occasional sense that the Flot guys

Thanks for articulating it better than I could have. This is exactly my sentiment. There's been over the last two years an occasional sense that the Flot guys have held the project hostage in some ways because for a long time it was the only viable library that did things the "jQuery way" with a sufficient number of fixes to remain stable on IE. Late into the project (where they stand now), it sucks to see important patches languish because the maintainers aren't vigilant or have more important things to attend to. The fact remains, visualization is now a fairly important component for a fair number of people who are working on data/analytics applications. It's easy for people to bandy about anecdotes of other projects or maintainers which do well on mailing lists and non-DVCSes .. but in this case it's not working terribly well for the Flot guys. So technical merits aside, this is why people might wander away from Flot and to projects like Dygraphs, beta warts and all, all because of issues not relating directly to code. Github may not be a panacea but when you see people like John Resig saying stuff like "I'm loving the influx of new contributors to jQuery core since moving to Github.", it must mean they're doing something incrementally better :) It's time for project owners to ease up on the reigns a bit, and I'm pleased to see more and more interesting projects hosted on github for this reason.