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by bayesian_horse 1701 days ago
You are wrongly assuming that the core developers are a club that is putting up barriers in order to stay exclusive.

Much to the opposite, just like many other big and important open source projects, they are actively trying to recruit, mentor and urge people to come as far "in" as possible. It takes a lot of work and dedication to get acquainted with a code base.