I found a minor glitch. I reported it on the bug tracker. It got 
partially fixed. But then it sat there waiting.

I downloaded the source code. I compiled it. I modified it. I checked 
it. I created a patch, and I submitted it. And, on Thursday, my patch 
was committed to both the STABLE and HEAD branches.

Woo, me! :-D

Now I can write on my CV that I have "contributed to an open source 
project".



Uh... OK, I admit it. It was a documentation glitch. I wrote a few 
paragraphs of documentation. I never actually touched any source code. 
(Although I _did_ read through it to find the information required to 
write the documentation.)

And, immediately after Igloo committed my patch, he committed a second 
patch that further modifies my text. (In particular, the undocumented 
feature I just documented has been changed slightly in HEAD - which I 
didn't notice until *after* I submitted the damn patch!)

So... yeah, not actually as impressive as it sounds at first, eh? :-/

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