I was talking about helping small community projects... but anyway.

Ask the people who contributed to those patches what were the gratifications and rewards today. Ask them again in one year time. I'm sure all them feel rewarded in one way or another.

About the patch rejected I have nothing to add to what Eero, myself and others commented in your link.

About the feature itself, let's look it from the overlaps/gaps perspective:

- There was a gap, and the community effort done around this patch covered it. Now it can be used for Diablo community editions. Good!

- There is also an overlap, since Maemo SW covered that feature for Fremantle. The code itself can't be the same for many reasons. The community code goes for Diablo community and the Nokia code goes for Fremantle official. Overlap solved? Users happy?