In reply to Chris Christoff.

Chris, point well taken about there existing alternative Git systems as well as alternative SVN systems. We did the shopping around about four years ago when someone wanted to contribute some code to one of our plugins and was astonished when we didn't have a Github or Bitbucket account.

At this point, Github is the collaborative weapon of choice for almost half the active authors in Wordpress.org. Wordpress.org is not an island unto itself. If Wordpress.org cared about making external developers lives easier, it should be a priority for them to allow us to easily (single button easy) to deploy from Github to Wordpress SVN.

Yes, I know any competent coder can code his own workaround. But why the heck should so many coding hours be burned in vain in every small code shop across the land and across the world?