On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 09:25:48PM -0500, Sean P. DeNigris wrote:
> Nicolas Cellier wrote
> > github is the key. It's the social thing.
> 
> +1. Things like issue/commit linking, and the ability to discuss changes
> inline in the diff are powerful (and fun). For me the game changer was
> one-click forking???
> 
> Old workflow: find an awesome - but abandoned - library. Have a small fix
> that makes it work again. But no access to mcz repo :/ Start a
> days?weeks?months?-long hunt for the maintainer. Ultimately realize that
> they have left the community and???
> 
> New workflow: Click "Fork" and happily continue coding. Bonus points for
> clicking "New Pull Request" so the original project can merge if interested.
> 

Thanks Sean, that is a very good explanation :-)

Dave