Despite only knowing the very basics of C and that for 16 pin PIC µControllers, I corrected someone's syntax error on the patch he sent me for an AMD graphics driver. I got abuse for my trouble, but the correction stayed in place.

I'm experiencing déjà vu all over again

I once customized an open source app called "rockbox". I offered to share the code with their development team. But they were not happy that I a non-team member had done such a thing. So my customization had an audience of me.

For some years I used freebsd until linux driver development eventually supported hardware I had. During those times I often had to fix freebsd drivers myself. Also for an audience of me.

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I customized the OSM suite because it was too slow and I got 50% better.

But one of their team which aquired his title of dev by adding spaces in the source code made me feel mad...

Then, I'm the only user of my speedy osm

I'm curious about OSM,
I got about 4 different results
1/ Open Service Mesh
2/ HPE Open System Management
3/ Oracle Order and Service Management
4/ Fortra Operations, Systems, and Security Management

Don't forget:
5/ Open Street Map.

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How did I miss that one...

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Yes: ffDiaporama 2.1 for Archlinux to find in AUR.

I wound up modifying some aspects of a Python-based forum system that I was using, in order to provide "permissions handling" which ... well ... actually worked properly. (And, which provided the "granularity" that I needed.) The existing software had very-cumbersome (and, incorrect ...) checks in two different places within the system, and neither one worked. I created a much-cleaner approach that did work. (And that had the checks in only one place.) I then installed it in my running system, and contributed the changes to the developer of the software. I actually haven't looked lately to see if he included it.

I would be interested in knowing if the changes were accepted or not.

I say that because I contributed some changes to a dev once to update his program. It wouldn't compile was the problem. He ended up not accepting them. I just got thanked and then the changes were ignored. Granted, the program was being distributed for historical purposes, but still...

Yes. qtrans 0.3.3 to use qt5WebEngine.

I've changed a line or two in the source code of flashcard app Anki for personal use. I needed it to run without a class from a newer Python version if I recall.