Comment 52 for bug 1502263

If you refer to lightscreen, it is already on github: https://github.com/ckaiser/Lightscreen If you mean Shutter, it is free software, so anybody is free to fork it and put the code anywhere. The only downside is that distro package maintainers will need some time to realize that the development is going on somewhere else, but I think, this is a solvable problem.