"Programmers don't care about version numbers, release history, bug trackers, mailing lists, nothing. Especially if the project is relatively small. Just the code please."
I disagree. Experienced programmers definitely care about bug trackers and version numbers. Once you get bitten by version skew or lose a day trying to reproduce a bug against a wrong version, you start to care about such things.
And small projects are just big project that haven't grown yet :)
As a programmer using the code others publish on Github, I'm definitely interested in those, the more so when I want to contribute. Many project are sorely lacking a way to report and discuss (possible) bugs (bug tracker, mailing list, hell, an email address would be fine) and to figure out what version of the code contains what (release history/changelog and version numbers). However small, I find projects without those much harder to use and improve.
Yes - the administrative stuff is important when contributing. Bug tracker + versioning might save you effort in cases when the bug you found is already being worked on or maybe even has a fix waiting for release.
I disagree. Experienced programmers definitely care about bug trackers and version numbers. Once you get bitten by version skew or lose a day trying to reproduce a bug against a wrong version, you start to care about such things.
And small projects are just big project that haven't grown yet :)