[darkamaul]

I think most of the comments here miss that contributions is not equal to code.

Contributions to the documentation, translations, or helping managing the community are also extremely valuable and do not require the same technical skills.

[bloppe]

That's true, but even those non-technical roles are in a totally different league of scope than jury duty.

A jurist has an extremely narrow role: deciding whether the defendant is guilty. The jurist has zero input on the laws or court procedure or sentencing or anything else. The judge is supposed to explain how all those things work to the jury, and hold their hands pretty much the whole time up until the part at the very end, where the jury go off to deliberate and deliver the verdict. The jury is completely passive even when it comes to examining the case itself, which is the job of the lawyers. It's a pretty good system because essentially the whole process is handled by seasoned professionals, except that one crucial part of saying guilty or not guilty.

That's fundamentally different from contributing to open source. Nobody's holding your hand from start to finish, because that would kinda defeat the point of contributing.