On the contrary my dear igouy, specialisation can be key and knowing which tool in my toolset is best for different tasks is indeed insightful & helpful ;-)
re: contribute - Looking on my hard disk I see that I downloaded the bencher/shootout-scm back on 1st Jan 2010. However IIRC the process of contributing code back was a bit unwieldy. If some free tuits come my way then I may relook at it.
Looking at my keychain I see I have three logins for alioth... draegtun, draegtun-guest & draegtun_guest... all created on 1st Jan 2010.
So it looks like I had issues logging (back) onto Alioth at that time :(
Anyway resolved it now because I see that draegtun-guest does work for me :)
It's a little convoluted and the contribute notes don't initially match what you see at login but after rummaging around I found the required tracker and have now submitted the faster fasta.pl.
re: contribute - Looking on my hard disk I see that I downloaded the bencher/shootout-scm back on 1st Jan 2010. However IIRC the process of contributing code back was a bit unwieldy. If some free tuits come my way then I may relook at it.