&gt; I think part of this problem is the community, multiple people have reported having bad interactions with core language devs.<p>I can only think of a couple of instance where I&#x27;ve heard anything like this.<p>The first and most prominent is Dan Luu. I&#x27;m very sad about losing him from the community. I&#x27;ve met him a couple of times in person, I still read his blog and I very much respect him. I don&#x27;t think any of us have the full story of what happened there, but I sincerely hope that time may be able to smooth things over.<p>The second was in an HN comment that I just went back to find, and discovered that is was you. I&#x27;m sorry if you had a bad experience with the community. I know my perspective is biased, but I&#x27;ve rarely interacted with a community that&#x27;s as passionate, helpful and friendly as the julia community (LLVM is up there as well).<p>As for documenting the process, I agree there could be some improvement there. We do have a contributors guide (CONTRIBUTING.md in the main repository). As for policies for feature inclusion, we&#x27;ve considered having more formal code owners for parts of the code base (right now there&#x27;s mostly de facto code owners for various parts), but haven&#x27;t found it necessary so far. I definitely expect some of this to be discussed at JuliaCon in June.