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by cadamsdotcom 5 days ago
> I can find a bug, I can fix it, but I am not allowed to tell them how exactly I did it.

You can do all that, and make a bug report with a fix.

What happens next is up to the maintainers. If they reimplement from everything you gave them, and sculpted the fix into its final shape, that’s a great outcome for everyone.