I am celebrating a Drupal first for me today. I got through the entire process of discovering a subtle, yet critical bug in Drupal 6, reporting it, creating a patch, updating that patch based of feedback in the issue queue, and having my patch submitted to core (http://drupal.org/node/214329). Yay! I have contributed to all the parts of the process before, but this was my first round trip.

I found the core issue while investigating an odd bug in my Popup Dialogs module, and it is a good reminder of how important it is to get in and really start using a new version of Drupal while it is still in the RC stage.