Proposal: 1.8 release and development process changes

[Alan Coopersmith]

Jim Gettys wrote:
> 	o github is one (but is a commercial tool free to free software). 
> (github.com)

At OSCON this year, one of the github maintainers said that if we wanted
to support people maintaining their own clones on github, we could work
with them to set up official clones that sync with our trees that github
users could then sync with.

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