Open Source Contributions

When encountering a bug, usually

I try to fix it myself 🔧 (please toggle!)

So there are several projects with just a single or a handful of commits. Even in programming languages like Java where I don't have a clue about.

My personal highlights are marked with 📣

Project	Contribution	Year
beautified-JOSM-preset	bugfix	2019
Buildroot	📣 gstreamer packages for Qtopia Phonon support bugfixes/improvements	2008-2009
BusyBox	bug/doc fixes	2008
Device Tree Compiler (dtc)	doc fix	2024
file	new/improved magic: epoc, .pmb, .osm.pbf, .osm, .gpl, .prt	2012-2014
Git (+ git-gui + gitk)	📣 show-branch --color bug/doc fixes, improvements	2008-2010
git-filter-repo	📣 convert-svnexternals little fixes	2022-2023
GitLab	doc fixes: 1 2	2024
GitLab Runner	doc fixes: 1 2	2024
GNU roff / groff	bugfix date in PDF metadata, see also patch in bugtracker	2014
JOSM	bugfix imagery offset, see also bugtracker	2015
Lexilla (outsourced from Scintilla)	lexers for 📣 Motorola S-Record and 📣 Intel HEX, see also bugtracker	2014-2015
libgpiod	bugfix	2025
libsigrok	bugfixes CSV input and C++ bindings	2022
libusb	AMD USB 3.0 root hub support	2014
Linux	kconfig/qconf fixes/improvements, at25 driver improvements, doc fixes	2008-2009, 2025
LXDE lxsession	translation fixes	2010
LXDE lxinput	bugfix mouse sensitivity, see also bugtracker	2010
MPlayer	uClibc build fix: svn log -v --diff -c28387 svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/mplayer/	2009
msysGit / Git for Windows	little improvements for Vim	2009
Notepad++	MinGW cross-build under Linux integration of HEX file lexers	2015-2017, 2019
OpenStreetMap Notes as KML	bugfixes/improvements	2018, 2023
OpenStreetMap website	little fixes/improvements, e.g. notes GPX export	2015-2016
OSELAS.Toolchain()	bug fixes, new package	2024
osmnotes	GPX file valid	2015
OSRM frontend	bugfix zoom in URL, support z=0	2016
PTXdist	bug/doc fixes, new/enhanced packages	2024-2025
QGit	bugfixes/improvements	2009
SciTE	integration of Motorola S-Record and Intel HEX lexers, see also bugtracker and more commits: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8	2014-2015, 2025
SRecord	bugfixes near end of address space 📣 PDF outline bug/doc fixes	2014, 2022-2023
U-Boot	little fixes	2008
Universal Ctags / Exuberant Ctags	bugfix Python parser, doc fix	2015
Vim	📣 'relativenumber' option syntax highlighting for Motorola S-Record, reworked for Intel HEX some bugfixes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 (see version7.txt), 9	2008-2010, 2013, 2015, 2025
Wine	bugfix JScript Date.parse() timezone	2016