I know Pico-8 is not open source, but if I were given the opportunity to try to fix a bug on say the Pico-8 raspberry pi build and submit a pull request on a private repository, I would gladly do so, for free.

Cheers,
-GradualGames

Good question!

I think I've heard the plan is for PICO-8 to eventually go open source, or at least make the source available to license owners.

..But I don't have a source for my information.

@qouka: I actually created a thread for how to workaround a couple of those issues you mentioned.

https://lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=30880

But I totally agree I would love to submit pull requests for PICO-8, I don't think I've ever felt stronger motivation to do that for any other software, but sadly the opportunity is not available.