Shopware flies the flag for open source and community involvement in further development, bug fixing, etc.

You also offer a store with extensions from others, where these can be purchased. However, this is where the idea of contributing ends. The plugin is a state secret until it is purchased and can be imported using composer, at which point the code becomes known.

In order to request changes to plugins or report bugs, you have to create a ticket in your account, in which you then try to insert code for which the editor is not at all suitable. Everything is complicated and cumbersome.

Idea: provide a kind of mini Gitlab/Github for plugins, where the ‘customers’ of the plugins themselves can make pull requests for plugins, so that plugin manufacturers and contributing developers can quickly make fixes or feature requests. This could certainly be restricted so that you only see plugins that you have purchased.