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The original was posted on /r/selfhosted by /u/brando2131 on 2025-03-12 14:02:43+00:00.
Say you write all your coding projects to your own local Git server/SSH, and you use something like cgit for web viewing.
This is all good for personal/private projects, but if you open source it (GPL/MIT) and people clone your work, of course it will end up on GitHub.
Then how does one end up managing issues and pull requests from others? As an example, I see that cgit itself has a read-only github mirror, they don't accept any issues or PRs on github and there are none..
However there are 77 contributors with their commit history. How did he do this? It says that you need to go via his mailing list, and then does he push their code to github? How does GitHub confirm the code was written by them and link it back to their profiles? Does that mean anyone can just pretend to write code as you or what's going on?