That wasn't the complaint. OP was trying to start the process to even be allowed to submit patches, but was stuck in Oracle's bureaucratic hell for a whole yea

That wasn't the complaint. OP was trying to start the process to even be allowed to submit patches, but was stuck in Oracle's bureaucratic hell for a whole year. If they didn't want his patches, they could have just said so, rather than stringing him along. CLAs are a cancer.