Thanks for the reply.
2. Unfortunately every time I did that people tried using it as a support channel instead, including asking for support for cgminer forks, and not for code issues. I'm contactable enough on the forum and via email as listed in the code base that I respond where appropriate anyway.
For most of my projects I let people use the Github issues for support and it works out fine. I can understand, though, if you want to contain that knowledge in bitcointalk. That said, it's difficult to find what the outstanding bugs/issues actually are, and so I imagine you have lots of repeat questions about things. It's also hard to find stuff when all knowledge about the project is lumped into a single, linear forum thread. I'm sure you have your share of opinions about bfgminer, but an open and thriving issue tracker is a definite advantage of that project:
https://github.com/luke-jr/bfgminer/issues.