[ekarulf]

"Note that we do not accept pull requests"

Strange.

[geofft]

That text is unmodified from upstream's README.

It's a little unfortunate that GitHub provides so little room to add your own README to a fork, short of modifying upstream's README in the source code itself. You get a sentence at the top, which is about it.

[jff]

I've seen people create their own README and move the upstream one to README.upstream or similar. Seemed sensible to me.

[praseodym]

But unfortunately that change will then be included in all pull requests, unless you create a clean branch for every change you want to get into upstream.

[electrum]

GitHub should allow you to choose which file to use as the readme, just like they allow you to choose the default branch.

[FireBeyond]

Or "README.forkname" or "README.user-forkname"...

[nucleardog]

They're not doing the actual development on GitHub, just mirroring it there because, to many developers, GitHub is git.

Not all that strange.

(My guess, anyway.)

[throwaway999888]

The Go team does use Github Issues.

[moondowner]

Same on https://github.com/golang/go

[striking]

Same with https://github.com/torvalds/linux

[rdtsc]

Why?