Based on the thread asking for people's GitHub info, there seem to be some GitHub experts here. Indulge me for a moment to ask a question about GitHub and what it can "do for me." (In my defense, SpamBayes is a Python-based project.)<br>
<br>I'm one of the SpamBayes developers (<a href="http://www.spambayes.org/">http://www.spambayes.org/</a>), but we have all moved onto other things. Consequently, it's been pretty dormant for at least three or four years. The bulk of the infrequent questions sent to the <a href="mailto:spambayes@python.org">spambayes@python.org</a> mailing list these days relate to the Outlook plugin which Mark Hammond, Tim Peters and Tony Meyer developed. (I think it's telling that Outlook users still have no better spam filtering solution than a long dormant open source tool, but that's a conversation for another day.) As you probably know, Windows hasn't stood still over the past few years. We've had Windows 7, Windows 8, 64-bit versions of Outlook, and who knows what all else. Consequently, it can be challenging for your typical Windows user to get SpamBayes installed and functioning, if, in fact, they even can. More commonly, people upgrade their OS or Outlook versions and find SpamBayes stops working.<br>
<br>During a recent thread about SpamBayes' (lack of) Windows support, one correspondent wrote:<br><br><blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><i>This is where you officially move the project(s) to GitHub and pay attention to pull requests. You're more likely to get people contributing on GitHub than SourceForge. Forking, modifying, and submitting pull requests is just as easy as merging and accepting the pull request into the main branch. If you don't want to do any development (the hard part anyway), the key is to stay on top of pull requests and don't let them sit around in the queue for more than a couple weeks. The work on your end becomes rather minimal - taking more of a hands-off managerial role.</i><br>
<br></blockquote>It seemed to me that the author was suggesting that if I would just move the project to GitHub, all my cares will disappear. Elves with Windows experience will sneak into my workshop at night and solve all my problems, leaving pull requests for me to respond to in the morning. As you might expect, I'm just a little skeptical.<br>
<blockquote style="margin:0 0 0 40px;border:none;padding:0px"><br></blockquote>What do the assembled GitHub experts think? Will Windows elves magically appear to fix Windows support if I simply move SpamBayes from SourceForge to GitHub? Where will these pull requests come from? Do I need to come up with a clever Super Bowl commercial to attract developers?<div>
<br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div><br></div><div>Skip</div><div><br></div>