> ultimately just putting obstacles in front of other coders who might like to contribute Saying it is just that after reading the full text seems rather reduc

> ultimately just putting obstacles in front of other coders who might like to contribute Saying it is just that after reading the full text seems rather reductive and unfair. That is certainly a likely side effect, of course. It may even be a desirable one, avoiding, or at least reducing, several classes of time wasting contributions (like the glut of single typo fixing pull requests that resulted from an ill-conceived contribution based competition a while back), especially for "open source but not open contribution" projects. Some projects are not wanting to optimise for the number of contributors above other considerations.