It's actually not really lame at all, after all this is open sourced. I guess people want the chance to contribute to the project (or to fork it).
P.S. I'm also curious as to why folks are downvoting those who are asking about Github!
I didn't downvote, but... It's actually pretty irritating that discussion of any project not hosted on GH gets "Why not Github?" question, every single f-ing time.
I hope this will end, together with LinkedIn invites.
In this case, there was no repo at all. That's why he was asked.
It was more of a genuine question than of a criticism. There are obvious advantages about having a public repository if one is distributing the source code. But there might be disadvantages too, even as little as the setup time. I should have made the question more explicit.