Someone who finds and fixes the smallest, useless detail in a pubic github repository and later claims they are a contributor of said project.
Sherry: We should totally hire Kraig he is a contributor to erlang!
Bob: Yeah, he added a period to the end of the readme....
Sherry: OMGEE he is seriously amazing! Can you believe he wrote erlang? Do you think he graduated from waterloo?
Bob: he doesn't write erlang he is a readme patcher...
by dongleforker April 6, 2016
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