Core is not a "decentralized" group lol. wtf does that mean? lmao Can I merge something to Core? Core are devs and some have control over the repo and merge access, not all of them, I can submit a PR ...
It's pretty clear what that means, it means there's no leaders. There are maintainers, but these people do not speak for or override the rest of the core developers. If you're curious how core development actually works there are plenty of how-to articles to help you because it seems you need to start from the beginning.
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