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by martijndeh 3369 days ago
Nowadays the stuff on GitHub is simply a mirror. Originally, they used GitHub primarily. Why they used GitHub was explained by Sytse (or Sid) in 2013:

"We're just going to stay where the people are. [...] GitHub is where the contributors are."

You can hear him yourself in The Changelog #103 podcast at https://changelog.com/podcast/103. Again, this was from late 2013.