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Why do you assume everyone fills it up ? Honest question.

While it's true github isn't the "best tool" for everything in the world (what is?), I find it mostly serves as a discovery tool. If I have a bug in a project, I'll first look at the issues/PRs for other people who might have fixed the damned thing. And it often turns out there are. The original author might have abandonned the project, or he might have a different way to handle contributions, but that doesn't matter to ME. I care about having my fix, upstreamed or not.