What's better in terms of user experience - providing an email address or a link to my projects github account?

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Published on 2012-06-11T09:10:17Z Indexed on 2012/06/11 10:47 UTC
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What's better in terms of user experience?

Provide the user an email account where he can report bugs, or a link to the projects github issues page (which requires a github account but may be easier to submit bugs to)?

EDIT

The application is a Bash script hosted on github. The GNU Coding Standards suggests using an email address, which may or may not an appropriate solution.

Target audience is the CLI power user.

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