[gosubpl]

https://xkcd.com/386/

Disclaimer: I am an akka and akka-http community contributor. I don't know how this works for other projects.

But I don't think the process is as painful as you describe in the akka world. My experiences are quite to the contrary. The community here is warm and welcoming. But, please look at this from the other side. Would you use the software in your mission critical application if the project was accepting quickly contributions from random strangers on the internets?

Please, find an issue marked as community in https://github.com/akka/akka/issues or https://github.com/akka/akka-http/issues and give it a go. How to solve the "credentialize yourself" problem? Be known to the commiters by first working on a docs issue.

[atemerev]

I am half-joking, of course; when I have submitted my first (minor) PR to Akka, I thought "wow, that is probably the most complicated code I ever had to follow through!" So I expected that I could get many things wrong, and will have to correct them first. So I did.

Akka community is excellent.