Thanks for bringing this up. It is the same with the Apache projects I work on. A CLA is required to get commit access or to donate substantial pieces of code*, but not to submit the sort of patches we see from the wider community on a regular basis. (*I guess the distinction is whether or not a code donation could be considered to be separately copyrightable, but IANAL.)
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Thanks for bringing this up. It is the same with the Apache projects I work on. A CLA is required to get commit access or to donate substantial pieces of code*, but not to submit the sort of patches we see from the wider community on a regular basis. (*I guess the distinction is whether or not a code donation could be considered to be separately copyrightable, but IANAL.)