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I am seeing this sort of thing frequently in GitHub - people start working on something and it gets "released" before they are ready with it and the authors have to scramble to say that this is not ready, ward off degrading comments etc.

The js.js blog post mentions this and in mrbuy , the README has just been updated. Is social coding being taken to the extreme?

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Why don't they use something like bitbucket (free private repos) until it is ready to be launched?

I seriously doubt that whether the repositories were private was a financial consideration. More likely, they wanted others to be able to find the project and join in.

People who develop software of this caliber can easily afford the expense of a private Github repository if they want one.

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