> > I concur.  In summary, everyone offering help is lying; fact is they
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> > 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.