I never really realized how much effort goes into open source or the community dynamics that power it until I read that Working In Public book by Nadia Eghbal. Really shines a great light on the dynamics and effort required to keep alot of these projects going.
Nadia Eghbal worked at GitHub, so her perspective will be skewed by the dominant influence.
The GitHub way of working has only been around since GitHub launched. Accordingly, the free software and open source communities that predate GitHub had their own ways of working before GitHub came along. Despite the widespread perception that GitHub makes doing open source easy, it comprises a set of practices that can be and are frequently more taxing than the alternatives. If GitHub is all you know, though, or you've forgotten, or you've just not noticed and never measured it, then it's easy to think that the GutHub way embodies the essentials of development in the open, even though its workflows are pretty bloated.
The comment was a direct response to the other (about how much effort it takes to do open source [on GitHub]). I can't make full sense of your questions, but what is possible to make out doesn't seem to follow from the comment you're replying to.
