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 ## Development
 
+> [!WARNING]
+> External contributions to this repo from first-time contributors are currently on hiatus. If you'd like to see a change made to the package, please open an issue.
+
 [Contribution guidelines for this project](CONTRIBUTING.md)
 
 The test suite depends on [stripe-mock], so make sure to fetch and run it from a