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It is perfect understandable if you are approaching this for the first time, with a burning desire to solve a specific musical dilemma with code. Treat it as an opportunity to learn. It is a process that can, at first, appear overly involved and, perhaps, a little bureaucratic, but there are good reasons for the approach that's taken. It has succeeded to keep track of enormous code bases securely, sometimes in the face of actively hostile actions by others. It is this very characteristic that means that many open source projects operate that way, and may give people an insight into quite what 'open source code visible to all really' means for us.   

It is perfect understandable if you are approaching this for the first time, with a burning desire to solve a specific musical dilemma with code. Treat it as an opportunity to learn. It is a process that can, at first, appear overly involved and, perhaps, a little bureaucratic, but there are good reasons for the approach that's taken. It has succeeded to keep track of enormous code bases securely, sometimes in the face of actively hostile actions by others. It is this very characteristic that means that many open source projects operate that way, and may give people an insight into quite what 'open source code visible to all really' means for us.   

Also this robustness should resolve you of fears about 'doing some damage'. This well walked path of forking a repository, and making a Pull request protects you the community from yourself in an agreed fashion.  

Also this robustness should resolve you of fears about 'doing some damage'. This well walked path of forking a repository, and making a Pull request protects you the community from yourself in an agreed fashion.  

=== Could you tell me about the codebase? ===

=== Could you tell me about the codebase? ===