March 2019: Developer Appreciation Day (DAD)

As March has given way to April, 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:

• 72 contributors

• 32 patch authors

• 115 reviews (4 features, 66 bugfixes, 43 tasks)

• 20 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 David Aichi, Aimeos, Jürg Blaser, Jörg Bösche, Mathias Brodala, David Bruchmann, Ralph Brugger, Cristian Buja, Riccardo De Contardi, Filipe Da Costa, Kevin Ditscheid, Henrik Elsner, Andreas Fernandez, Sebastian Fischer, Benjamin Franzke, Stefan Frömken, Christian Futterlieb, Einar Gislason, Josef Glatz, Rudy Gnodde, Daniel Goerz, Alexander Grein, Benjamin Gries, Stephan Großberndt, Oliver Hader, Richard Haeser, Hendrik Helmken, Julian Hofmann, Helmut Hummel, Björn Jacob, Thorben Kapp, Mark Kirstein, Oliver Klee, Markus Klein, Sebastian Klein, Wolfgang Klinger, Markus Klösges, Benjamin Kott, Peter Kraume, Christian Kuhn, Jörg Kummer, Martin Kutschker, Christoph Lehmann, Anja Leichsenring, Gleb Levitin, Benni Mack, Soren Malling, Ralf Merz, Tomas Norre Mikkelsen, Susanne Moog, Tymoteusz Motylewski, Frank Nägler, Stefan Neufeind, Xavier Perseguers, Sybille Peters, Daniel Rémy, Georg Ringer, Sebastian Rosskopf, André Schließer, Guido Schmechel, Alexander Schnitzler, Mathias Schreiber, Bernhard Sirlinger, Preben Rather Sørensen, Riny van Tiggelen, Roberto Torresani, Fabien Udriot, Jürgen Venne, Christian Weiske, Nikolaj Wojtkowiak-Pfänder, Andreas Wolf and Wouter Wolters.

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.

A very big THANK YOU to all documentation contributors for their help to extend and improve the documentations of TYPO3: Ben Abbott, ayacoo, Martin Bless, Stephan Brun, christian-ungur-at-trumpf-com, Riccardo De Contardi, danielsiepmann-testing, Jan Delius, Stefan Frömken, Gareth, Josef Glatz, linawolf, michael-binder, Fawad Mirzad, Susanne Moog, Andrew Murphy, Oliver Gassner, Sybille Peters and RonaldKools.

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.

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 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 April’s recap that we’ll be publishing at the beginning of the next month.