<story><title>How Github has changed the open source world</title><url>http://honza.ca/2011/03/7-ways-github-has-changed-the-open-source-world/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>michaelbuckbee</author><text>An item that is not in the list of 7 and of vital importance to open source projects is the &quot;ease of forking&quot;.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;ve spoken to a couple different Open Source app maintainers who have basically said: GitHub made our community of contributors better by making it so easy to fork smaller portions of the codebase.&lt;p&gt;Where before they would basically just take abuse about issue/features (Why don&apos;t you support Markdown instead of direct HTML entry in your CMS, or whatever). Now they can just say &quot;fork off&quot; and have whoever complains maintain a separate codebase with their custom additions.</text></comment>
<story><title>How Github has changed the open source world</title><url>http://honza.ca/2011/03/7-ways-github-has-changed-the-open-source-world/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>duck</author><text>8. Get people using Git (and more generally, get more people using version control for their projects)&lt;p&gt;9. Made it popular to post more than just projects (off hand I&apos;m thinking about dot/config files)&lt;p&gt;10. Make it easier to actually provide patches to open source projects</text></comment>