> Barring that, is not completion of the CA a reasonable a priori proxy for the level of commitment of a contributor, where a base level of commitment is desirable?
Wait, so now lazy people don't have good ideas? As a lazy person, I take offense at that notion.
Saying you're lazy seems absurd on the face of it. :-)
But: ideas mean nothing without execution. What if the great ideas are only offered as git pull requests? Or are based on Clojure 1.1.0, but the author is too lazy to do the work to rebase/merge? Or are pasted into a gist and linked to in #clojure?
There's lots of criteria that are applied to whether or not a patch gets in, totally aside from its technical merits. The CA just happens to be one that gets a lot of ink.
well, humor aside, there are different grades of lazyness.
I'm a geek, I feel pleasure to do stuff on computers.
Tell me to print something, ehm find some paper somewhere without coffee stains, connect the printer, print it, sign it, put it somewhere on the desk so next day (it's night now) I can send it via snail mail, buy stamps etc etc
aaaargh, no simply no, not for a 5 lines fix in the contrib lib.
This 5 line fix, might have been another 10 lines tomorrow, then perhaps something more in future, but for now they are 5 lines and this procedure is actually blocking my gradual involvement in the whole thing.
It would be different if I had a real interest, if I had project I wrote and I would like to integrate, then perhaps I would find the whole operation slightly less useless. But for a quick bug fix ....
