The Clojure development process is notoriously closed to outsiders. Even in the early years, some people contributed time and code, and weren’t thanked. I woul

The Clojure development process is notoriously closed to outsiders. Even in the early years, some people contributed time and code, and weren’t thanked. I would view attempts to contribute as very high risk for newcomers. I personally maintained a fork for a couple years just for an unmerged patch I needed, rather than try to get the core team to merge it.