Pulling GitHub into the kernel process

Neither was Bitkeeper. With luck the lessons from there will still be strong enough to avoid any vendor lockin in terms of the primary approaches to contributing to the kernel, but there are already people who use proprietary software to contribute to Linux and there are already people who use Github who would like to contribute to Linux, and I think there's a meaningful benefit in enabling that.

My first interrogation reading this was why GitHub rather than GitLab? I guess the idea is to touch the large audience, not just to offer a nicer workflow ...