The GitHub thing also isn't very surprising to those of us have been around in this space for a while. People used to tell me they hosted their stuff at Sourceforge and Google Code because they were sure those companies could handle things better than they could. I get that then and even now with GitHub, but I've seen enough to be skeptical.
The Gitorious apocalypse is also evidence that a non-federated but FOSS git solution isn't really trustable either.
@cwebber Under my meatspace ID I actually "run" two or three FOSS Ruby projects. AFAIC they live in their Mercurial repos on my home server, although they are also hosted on both
Github and Bitbucket.
Of course, I'm "lucky" in that I'm literally the only developer working on (or even using!) these projects… :/