'sif they will accept any PR I were to put up anyway. Pretty sure I'll get that neat little error for any attempt to contribute.
As for forking, from a technical perspective, steemd is a nightmare. If you've ever actually tried to work with it, you would know what I mean.
I am indeed working on something, I have progressed a fair way in describing the specification:
https://steemit.com/div/@elfspice/follow-the-development-of-the-div-whitepaper
...and development roadmap that leverages competition for rewards as its incentive model for developers:
https://steemit.com/div/@elfspice/the-div-kernel-a-weed-that-has-found-fertile-ground
I am just catching up on my sleep still, after having to abruptly spend 3 days travelling through Serbia, and getting my miners back up and running (and having the beasts in my little apartment is not very helpful for my sleep either, here I am at 1am, blathering away, I must return to bed asap)...