It looks like it was to do with better integration tools, rather than a real bidirectional mirror setup. The end result is similar (simpler pull request handling,) although the mechanism is quite different. The original thread was from Fil on Aug 19 titled "Fw: Github tools".
Relevant quote: FYI: Apache Infra (Daniel Gruno in particular) working on GitHub pull request administration + notification features to integrate better with Apache projects. ... (1) is a web app / proxy type thing where any committers on a project will be able to log in and close / admin pull requests on github On Monday, September 16, 2013, Michal Mocny wrote: > I heard somewhere, can't remember from who, that its possible apache repos > in the future will be hosted directly on github (or maybe just that > mirroring will happen without noticeable delay and in both directions?), > and so we can move to actually accepting pull requests from github. > > Is that true? Is that potentially happening? > > I ask because that may impact our decision to jump onto the > reviews.apache.org bandwagon. I'd say its not worth learning to use if > the > timeline for github is short (though that seems unlikely). > > -Michal >
