It's worth noting that Francis Irving is not just <i>any</i> man, but an uber-nerd who founded Scraperwiki (<a href="https://scraperwiki.com/about/" rel="nofollow">https://scraperwiki.com/about/</a> ) was part of the team that built They Work For You (<a href="http://www.theyworkforyou.com/about/" rel="nofollow">http://www.theyworkforyou.com/about/</a> ) and other egovernment sites.<p>Then again, perhaps this note is moot. After all, using github issues to track house repair is probably all the bona fides one needs as an uber-nerd.
I do a similar thing with Trello.com, in fact the whole house hold now uses it (mostly through the mobile app) to manage shopping lists (supermarket/garden/farmers market), upcoming 'events', House Jobs, House Projects (which can evolve into their own boards).
This is a great example of users of your application doing unintended things. In this case, productive, positive things.<p>I also think this speaks volumes about the possibilities that open, or at least lenient, platforms offer. Rather than being removed for not adhering to a rule saying that "All project must contain source code", Github allows and encourages this kind of use.<p>I hope more companies in the future create products like this and treat their users similarly.