{"id":29482,"date":"2025-12-01T04:51:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/?p=29482"},"modified":"2025-12-01T04:51:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T04:51:00","slug":"jonathan-desrosiers-seven-years-a-committer-my-wordpress-commit-iversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/?p=29482","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Desrosiers: Seven Years a Committer: My WordPress Commit-iversary"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today officially marks 7 years since my first changeset was committed<\/a> to the WordPress<\/a> open source project.<\/p>\n

Within WordPress, a committer<\/em> is a contributor who has the ability to modify the main WordPress source repository. Since 2004, roughly 117 people have been given commit access, and 111 have made at least one commit.<\/p>\n

In previous years, I linked to posts from other contributors about what it means to be a great participant in open source. Over the past year, though, I have spent a lot of time thinking about what being a great contributor means to me and how decisions are made at scale in open source projects.<\/p>\n

This year, instead of pointing to others, I am proud to share an essay of my own<\/a>. It is a piece I drafted for the Maintaine.rs book<\/a>, inspired by my talk at WordCamp Europe<\/a>, where I explored how Core Committers think and how decisions take shape within the WordPress project.<\/p>\n

I also started drafting a few other posts on related topics, so stay tuned for those in the coming weeks. I hope to use the quieter days of December to get those over the finish line.<\/p>\n

Lucky Number Seven<\/h2>\n

Each year I try to give this anniversary post a theme. Since seven is considered a lucky number by many people (especially those on the pass line<\/a>), this year\u2019s theme is luck.<\/p>\n

I am writing this while on a plane to San Francisco for the 2025 State of the Word<\/a>. This year took me to two countries I had never visited before. I spoke at several conferences and events, and I had the chance to mentor many contributors in different ways.<\/p>\n

I feel incredibly lucky not only to have a job that allows me to help maintain open source software that powers more than 43% percent of the web, but also to have the trust of the community that maintains it right along side me.<\/p>\n

Commits by the numbers (2024-2025)<\/h2>\n

Here are some commit stats from November 30, 2024 through November 29, 2025:<\/p>\n