I finally listened to Sebastien Bacher and applied for GNOME commit rights yesterday, after hassling Seb once more about committing an approved patch for me. Surprisingly, it only took some 4 hours until my application was approved and my account created, wow! Apparently 71 patches are enough. 🙂
With my new powers, I fixed a crash in gdm, and applied two stragglers into gvfs’ build system today.
More to come!