October 2018: Developer Appreciation Day (DAD)

As October has given way to November, 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 folks are truly amazing!

Last month we had altogether:

• 95 contributors

• 59 patch authors

• 198 reviews (2 features, 115 bugfixes, 78 tasks)

• 16 documentation improvers

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 Thomas Alboth, Andreas Allacher, Felix Althaus, Kevin Appelt, Alexey Atsyn, Oliver Bartsch, Nathan Boiron, Jörg Bösche, Patrick Broens, Daniel Dorndorf, Claus Due, Jonas Eberle, Sascha Egerer, Benjamin Franzke, Stefan Frömken, Philipp Gampe, Josef Glatz, Rudy Gnodde, Daniel Goerz, Alexander Grein, Stephan Großberndt, Richard Haeser, Torben Hansen, Jürgen Heym, Elmar Hinz, Marc Hirdes, Nikita Hovratov, Björn Jacob, Cyril Janody, Jurian Janssen, Mr. Jenkins, Morton Jonuschat, Sven Jürgens, Johannes Kasberger, Oliver Klee, Ursula Klinger, Christian Knauf, Bernhard Kraft, Peter Kraume, Tobi Kretschmann, Jörg Kummer, Christoph Lehmann, Gleb Levitin, Henning Liebe, Jasmina Ließmann, Sascha Löffler, Gianluigi Martino, Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Chris Müller, Mona Muzaffar, Michael Oehlhof, Xavier Perseguers, Sybille Peters, Rune Piper, Simon Praetorius, Sascha Rademacher, Pascal Rinker, Daniel Sattler, Nicolai Schirawski, Guido Schmechel, Mathias Schreiber, Tim Schreiner, Daniel Siepmann, Preben Rather Sørensen, Kevin von Spiczak, Eike Starkmann, Alexander Stehlik, Jan Stockfisch, Riny van Tiggelen, undkonsorten, Łukasz Uznański, Willi Wehmeier and Wittkiel Gruppe.

High five for your dedicated work! Your contributions, reviews, testing and reports on issues are highly appreciated. They’re what make TYPO3 into such a powerful and stable software solution.

We’d also like to thank the following TYPO3 Core Team members for their ongoing committed support and faithful collaboration: Mathias Brodala, Riccardo De Contardi, Nicole Cordes, Andreas Fernandez, Oliver Hader, Jan Helke, Jigal van Hemert, Helmut Hummel, Markus Klein, Benjamin Kott, Christian Kuhn, Anja Leichsenring, Benni Mack, Susanne Moog, Tymoteusz Motylewski, Frank Nägler, Stefan Neufeind, Georg Ringer, Frans Saris, Andreas Wolf, Wouter Wolters and Ralf Zimmermann.

A very big "thank you" to all documentation contributors for their help to extend and improve the documentations of TYPO3: Ben Abbott, Kevin Appelt, Martin Bless, Mathias Brodala, Franz Holzinger, Christian Kuhn, Anja Leichsenring, Thomas Löffler, Susanne Moog, Sybille Peters, Sascha Rademacher, Tizian Schmidlin, Sebra7, Daniel Siepmann and Sven Wiener.

Are you a TYPO3 developer and would you like to meet other coders face-to-face more frequently? Or maybe you’re new to the TYPO3 project and would like to test the waters? We open our office doors every first Friday of the month for a full day of tackling issues in the review queue.

Location: TYPO3 GmbH, Am Wehrhahn 41, 40211 Düsseldorf, Germany
Date: 1st Friday every month
Time: 9am to midnight
Goal: Get things done, indulge in that green bar feeling and have a good time!

What to expect

The review process improves the overall quality of the code and is an essential part of the development of TYPO3. Review Friday is open to anyone who wants to help out, and the process is simple.

Come along, pick a seat, boot up your laptop, and spend time with us contributing to what we all love so much, TYPO3. There is room for coding, testing, talking and sharing stories. Food and beverages will be taken care of by us.

Sign up via Facebook (link is in the event description) or by contacting Anja Leichsenring via Slack (@maddy). Or just come along to our office in Düsseldorf. We can’t wait to see you! And do let your friends and co-coders know about this regular event.

We’re grateful to have so many developers involved in our open source project–developers 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 patch to make a difference! We’re excited to move forward with both Developer Appreciation Day as well as Review Friday, and look forward to celebrating our technical staff, employers and partners again. Stay tuned for November's recap that we’ll be publishing at the beginning of the next month.