[PieterH]

Yes, you get people fixing each others' typos. This is rather wonderful... rather than demand perfection from people, and punish them for making mistakes or not having all the right knowledge, it turns this to advantage. People complement each others' weaknesses and form powerful teams.

This isn't wishful thinking... we see this all the time. The Git history documents these interactions.

It does sometimes make it harder to cherry pick patches to backport to old releases. Yet that's a minor cost compared to the benefits of getting more, and happier, contributors.