February 2019: Developer Appreciation Day (DAD)

As February has given way to March, 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:

• 70 contributors

• 30 patch authors

• 98 reviews (5 features, 34 bugfixes, 57 tasks)

• 13 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 Harald Atteneder, Jörg Bösche, Jan Delius, dmst, Felix Döring, Jonas Eberle, Alessandro Filira, Sebastian Fischer, Benjamin Franzke, Steffen Frese, Stefan Frömken, Getdesigned GmbH, Josef Glatz, Rudy Gnodde, Daniel Goerz, Alexander Grein, Stephan Großberndt, Sonja Großewinkelmann, Sascha Grötzner, Richard Haeser, Elmar Hinz, Björn Jacob, Thorben Kapp, Stefanos Karasavvidis, Oliver Klee, Markus Klösges, Tobi Kretschmann, Jörg Kummer, Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Gerrit Mohrmann, Mona Muzaffar, Xavier Perseguers, Sybille Peters, Sascha Rademacher, Pascal Rinker, André Schließer, Guido Schmechel, Alexander Schnitzler, Tim Schreiner, Patrick Schriner, Johannes Seipelt, Daniel Siepmann, Fabien Udriot, Jürgen Venne, Willi Wehmeier and Julian Wundrak.

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 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, Alexander Opitz, 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: Stefan Busemann, clivebeckett, esokoll2, Andreas Fernandez, Stefan Frömken, Josef Glatz, Stephan Großberndt, Franz Holzinger, Christian Kuhn, Sybille Peters, Markus Poerschke, Daniel Rémy and Daniel Siepmann.

You'll find answers to frequently asked technical questions, instructional clips and all sorts of helpful videos on our TYPO3 YouTube channel. Come along and join us there. If you find this useful, please share the link on your network.

We’re grateful to have so many developers involved in the 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! Stay tuned for March’s recap that we’ll be publishing at the beginning of next month.