Vetter: Why Github can't host the Linux Kernel Community

Daniel Vetter describes how the kernel community scales and why he feels that the GitHub model tends not to work for the largest projects. "Unfortunately github doesn’t support this workflow, at least not natively in the github UI. It can of course be done with just plain git tooling, but then you’re back to patches on mailing lists and pull requests over email, applied manually. In my opinion that’s the single one reason why the kernel community cannot benefit from moving to github. There’s also the minor issue of a few top maintainers being extremely outspoken against github in general, but that’s a not really a technical issue. And it’s not just the linux kernel, it’s all huge projects on github in general which struggle with scaling, because github doesn’t really give them the option to scale to multiple repositories, while sticking to with a monotree."

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