This is a little tangential but I was looking at your github comments last week and saw you were interested in changing beneficiary rewards so they don't always pay out in SP. I just wanted to express my feeling that this would be a great change, and probably one that would get easy support. I hope that's something you will pursue adding to the codebase.
RE: I submitted my first hardfork pull request to the Steem blockchain! (Updates to the SBD print rate.)