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by londons_explore 997 days ago
It's the difference between:

> "Ask bob on discord and he'll give you commit access to the repo"

and:

> "First you need to fill out the CLA and send 3 pull requests before you can then apply for committer access at the bi-monthly steering group committee. Present your case in an email to them at least 28 days beforehand, and make sure an existing committer seconds it"