There could not be a more opportune time to make a competitor to GitHub, especially one grounded in community and accountability. Git was not meant to be centralized; “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding.

@anildash Can you elaborate on

> “pull requests” are not actually an open standard and throwing code over the wall at others is not actually social coding

given `git am`? I know you know this stuff, but I don't follow. Is there a meaningful difference between pull requests and sending git patches to mailing lists?