Today marks the 11 year anniversary of receiving my very first “props” for contributing to the WordPress project. In WordPress, giving “props” is the way credit and attribution is given to anyone who contributes to a given change in the software.
Props should be given to all those who contributed to the final commit, whether through patches, refreshed patches, code suggested otherwise, design, writing, user testing, or other significant investments of time and effort. Usernames are parsed for the credits list and WordPress.org profiles.
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While 11 is not as exciting a milestone as the round-numbered 10 and I’m about to start packing the car for a family vacation to New Hampshire, I’m still proud of contributing to the project for 11 years and I enjoy writing these posts. My 10 year anniversary post was pretty introspective, so I wanted to celebrate 11 a bit differently.
Props given
The best part of WordPress is the community. I always find celebrating the contributions of others is more fun. And with each additional year I spend in the project, my work becomes more and more centered on enabling and celebrating contributions from others.
Here are some fun stats I found looking through the project’s history:
- Since I received my first props on July 8, 2013, there have been roughly 52,900 props given out in SVN to ~5,200 unique contributors (about a 10 per contributor average).
- Through the entire SVN commit history, ~6,600 contributors have received a total of ~64,000 props. Interestingly enough, this is also about a 10 per contributor average.
- In my 5.5 years as a committer, I’ve been able to give props ~3,700 times to ~640 contributors. This is a slightly lower average sitting at about a 6 per contributor. But overall, this accounts for just under ~7% of all props given during this time frame.
- Adding in the other ~11,000 props for the project prior to July 8, 2013, my commits represent just under 6% of all props given in SVN during the entire project’s history.
- I’ve given Matt Mullenweg props just once.
I want to take a deeper look to see if there’s any reason why my commits give out less credit than the project average. Of course I’d love to give more credit. This also does not calculate a per commit average, just the number overall. My hunch is that average will be lower, but that’s not based on anything scientific.
Top 10
Here are the top ten contributors that I have given props to.
| Count | Contributor |
|---|---|
| 159 | SergeyBiryukov |
| 134 | peterwilsoncc |
| 111 | jorbin |
| 108 | johnbillion |
| 95 | mukesh27 |
| 89 | audrasjb |
| 72 | jrf |
| 72 | zieladam |
| 71 | dd32 |
| 65 | poena |
I wasn’t really surprised by any of these. All of the contributors above have been pretty active since receiving commit access and often work on the same areas of the code base as I do. They are all doing important work, and I’m happy that I’ve been able to collaborate with them and shepherd so many of their contributions over the finish line.
🍻 Cheers and thank you to each and every contributor that I’ve been able to give props to, and here’s to another year of contributing.
3 responses to “11 Years of Contributing to WordPress”
Glad to see my username in the list of Matt Mullenweg props. 🙂
Thank you for your 11 years of dedicated contribution to this project.
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