> > I concur. In summary, everyone offering help is lying; fact is they > > are unwilling to get off the couch. > > I appreciate the sentiment, but this isn't true. How many new developers > have been added over the past few of years? How many patches have been > taken from non-comitters? Never enough, but plenty to clearly show how it > works.
If you go back and look at who actually got an account, I bet you'll find they have one thing in common: They mailed diffs. Not requests for tasks. End of story.