Don't get me wrong - Github is an excellent site, well built and very useful. However there is a rapidly growing trend of people taking Github as the only place open-source software can live, while I choose to host my own repositories. Github is becoming the Facebook of open-source.
Am I the only person who feels this way?
The first was when I heard about githire. And there were other people were saying that they wanted to see your github user-page as a resume (or they wanted the much more sane but still very flawed requirement: a github link on a resume).
Yesterday I was on an open source project's website looking for the repo link and just couldn't find it, pages that talked at length about how open source they were had no link, the download page had source tarballs but no link. Then my mind clicked: they're using github and just assume that its the only place people anyone would ever look for source. Ten seconds later I had found the source on github.
Right now it just seems like a curiosity (I probably wouldn't want to work for someone with such harebrained hiring process anyway) but I do worry that the trend might have some bad implications in the future.