Creating a new project, by forking existing code or starting from scratch, is easy with GitHub.
A contributor is a project member and may commit and push a new version of code & documents to the project.
Somebody who is neither project master nor contributor, so not a project member, execute a “pull request”.
A newbie to a project and to GitHub may easily create a “pull request” to suggest code he/she created or fixed.
GitHub is not really willing to host binaries ( JAR, lib, DLL, executables, installable archives ). Instead it suggests to use some other cloud services like Amazon S3 for storage.
You may either download a GitHub project as archive in ZIP / TAR format, or by a Git client.
You may upload a Git repository to a remote location. e.g. GitHub. I.e. you can create all directory structures offline.
GitHub supports the agile development principle “Commit early and often”.
Show your intention what you want to change, instead of pushing your work.
The reason for the declaration of intention is a discussion about the intention and also, but not just the code .
GitHub has much more features than Git, e.g. “Milestone” feature, issue tracker, pull request.
DE.Wikipedia "EFA" - “Einer für Alle (EfA), zentrales Prinzip der Digitalisierung der öffentlichen Verwaltungen (E-Administration)”.
DE.Wikipedia "E-Administration" - “Ähnlich wie auf EU-Ebene sollen sich auch Bund, Länder und Kommunen in Deutschland nach dem zentralen Prinzip “Einer für Alle (EfA)” gegenseitig bei der Digitalisierung der öffentlichen Verwaltungen unterstützen.[3] So soll zum Beispiel ein Land oder eine Allianz mehrerer Länder eine Verwaltungsleistung derart digitalisieren, dass andere Länder sie ebenfalls nutzen können und nicht nochmals selbst entwickeln müssen”.
“Google Code runs a project hosting service[8] that provides revision control offering Subversion, Mercurial and Git”.
You have to define your OpenSource license when you create a project ( in opposite to other services like GitHub, where you define that by uploading license files ect. ).
“Wähle einen Tarif aus, um deine Website nach der kostenlosen Testphase zu behalten”, “Jetzt kostenlos ausprobieren bis zum Ende des Testzeitraums” - Just 30 days trial , no free service as advertised in legacy reviews, any more .
Uberspace.de - “Preise. Du wirfst einen frei wählbaren monatlichen Beitrag in den Topf, aus dem wir Hardware, Strom, Traffic, Klimatisierung und unser Personal bezahlen”.
Cloud Mercato "Providers / Hetzner / Flavors / CPX51" - Used by the barcamp “PythonCamp Cologne 2022” - CPU 16, RAM - 32768 MB, Root volume size - 360 GB cpx51 Local, Included traffic 20480 GB/month. Traffic inclusion is a plus to calculate with a fixed price .
Scribd - “Millions of documents and books at your fingertips! Read, print, download, and send them to your mobile devices instantly. Or upload your PDF, Word, and PowerPoint docs to share them with the world's largest community of readers”.