Well, yesterday I submitted my first patch to an open source project, as noted in my post “Banshee Patch”.

I just got an email from the lead developer on the Banshee project that my patch would not be used because it was a duplicate and it did not follow the previously discussed layout/options.  Yes, I am little upset that my patch did not get accepted, however the bug that I was pointed to was merged in only 10 minutes later, so I at least got the feature I wanted out of the deal.

The other silver lining is that I was able to write the feature, have it work, and also not have it break the current trunk of the application.  So I have a little more confidence now in myself to try and find something else I can work on and possibly submit a patch for.