ther eare some convince factors to github and many inconvenices.,
it has a vastly inferior code review model that if i was force to use would push me out of the openstack comunity long term.
im sure there are others too that feel stongly that moving to a github pull request based workflow woudl be a large regerssion
and make them less inclined to continue working on openstack.

The thread is being very explicit about external projects and not the OpenStack itself.