December 2020: Developer Appreciation Day (DAD)

As December has given way to January it’s time to reflect on what the past month has brought us. Recapping the evaluation of our most recent contributions to the TYPO3 core, we find some remarkable numbers. You guys are truly amazing!

Last month we had altogether:

• 54 contributors
• 28 patch authors
• 134 reviews (13 features, 45 bugfixes, 73 tasks, 1 cleanup)
• 15 documentation improvers
• 12 TYPO3.org contributors (40 issues, 40 merge requests)

We could not accomplish our goals without the support, involvement and engagement of all you dedicated developers who contribute towards the TYPO3 project. It’s important to us that you all know just how much we appreciate your work.

Your contributions are the foundation of the TYPO3 open source platform - thank you!

This month, a special THANK YOU goes to Oliver Bartsch, Jörg Bösche, Mathias Brodala, Eric Chavaillaz, Riccardo De Contardi, Claus Due, Dmitry Dulepov, Jonas Eberle, Ingo Fabbri, Andreas Fernandez, Benjamin Franzke, Stefan Frömken, Philipp Gampe, Markus Gerdes, Simon Gilli, Josef Glatz, Daniel Goerz, Daniel Gorges, Oliver Hader, Richard Haeser, Ayke Halder, Torben Hansen, Daniel Haupt, Elias Häußler, Helmut Hummel, Oliver Klee, Markus Klein, Christian Kuhn, Martin Kutschker, Anja Leichsenring, Benni Mack, mattweb.de, Sebastian Michaelsen, Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Susanne Moog, Frank Nägler, Alexander Nitsche, okmiim, Sybille Peters, Georg Ringer, Michael Schams, Johannes Schlier, Tizian Schmidlin, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer, Alexander Schnitzler, Tim Schreiner, Marcus Schwemer, Daniel Siepmann, Matthias Stegmann, Michael Telgkamp, Jörn Wagner, Wouter Wolters, Elisabeth Zeilinger, and Henrik Ziegenhain for your ongoing dedicated work.

All of your contributions, reviews, testing and reports on issues are highly appreciated. They’re what make TYPO3 into such a powerful and stable software solution.

Also, a very big THANK YOU to all documentation contributors for their help to extend and improve the documentations of TYPO3: Martin Bless, Mathias Brodala, derfony, Sascha Egerer, Torben Hansen, Markus Klein, Patrick Lautsch, Susi Moog, Oliver, Sybille Peters, André Schließer, Remo Schneider, Alexander Schnitzler, Tom W, and Lina Wolf.

Another THANK YOU goes out to all TYPO3.org-contributors for their help to maintain and extend the website of TYPO3: Christian Buelter, Stefan Busemann, Stephan Großberndt, Oliver Hader, Gerrit Hübbers, Thomas Löffler, Benni Mack, Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Chris Müller, Alexander Nitsche, David Steeb, and Andri Steiner.

Being an open source project, TYPO3 CMS is highly depended on its devoted developers, marketers and other contributors alike. If you're interested in contributing to TYPO3 yourself, you're more than welcome to do so! Find out more about how to contribute to the TYPO3 core as well as the documentation.

We’re grateful to have so many people involved in the our open source project–people who believe in bringing good ideas to life, and who are truly passionate about our powerhouse content management system TYPO3. Remember: all it takes is a single contribution to make a difference! Stay tuned for January’s recap that we’ll be publishing at the beginning of next month.