We do understand that the CLA will discourage some from contributing. Audacity is transitioning from an entirely voluntary development team to a team of many e

We do understand that the CLA will discourage some from contributing. Audacity is transitioning from an entirely voluntary development team to a team of many engineers, designers, testers, project managers, and a product manager all working full-time on the project. While we welcome and encourage community contributors to the project we anticipate that most of the contributions will be from the dedicated team. MuseScore underwent a similar transition to where more than 85% of commits are now from the dedicated team, while the number and frequency of commits has also significantly increased. We expect Audacity to be similar.