No question. But it usually doesn't last, as people move onto other projects. Even within this thread, the new list is replacing a similarly named, now unmaintained list.

DMOZ/Wikipedia at least try to provide long-term continuity and a standardized ontology for discovery. This github list is depending on the searcher already knowing that they should preface their dev discovery queries with "awesome".

If this list format were standardized, it could be dynamically merged with data from OpenHub. Or GitHub could add analytics features (similar to OpenHub) to assist the human curator editing this GitHub repo.