Do you have any experience with attempting to fix these bugs and then submitting patches / pull-requests? Yes, the core team should just fix these bugs. But if

Do you have any experience with attempting to fix these bugs and then submitting patches / pull-requests? Yes, the core team should just fix these bugs. But if they're receptive to upstream changes you want made, then that makes this much less of an issue, in my mind. An open source project's openness depends critically on the core team's acceptance of user patches.