Discourse community development statistics?

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The discussion explores the involvement of non-company contributors in the Discourse open-source project. mattdm raises the importance of diverse contributions beyond the company. merefield points to the partners page as a resource for identifying contributors, including those in plugins and themes. Moin references a list of contributors from a blog post, highlighting numerous individuals who have contributed code. Canapin adds that the 2022 Year in Review and the badge page provide further insights into active contributors, with badges awarded for achievements like creating plugins, themes, and pull requests, as well as for exceptional support.

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I know all of y’all at CDCK are amazing. But amazing as any company is, one important metric for any open source project[1] is involvement beyond one commercial entity. Are there core contributors to Discourse who do not work for the company? Are there regular, significant other patches and contributions?[2]

  1. I think about this a lot, in my job! ↩︎

  2. I know my own “contributions” usually come in the form of complaints, which is … something, at least, right? :slight_smile: Sorry! ↩︎

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The obvious candidates are those on this page:

Note, you should probably include leading Plugins/Theme Components as well as Core.

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There is a list of contributors in the #announcements:blog post aboit the release of a new version

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This topic can be of some help too:

And the badge page as well, since there are specific badges for very active users in various fields which are given for achievements such as creating plugins, themes, doing pull requests, etc, as well as manually given badges related to excellent free support from regular users.

Clicking a badge displays the list of users owning this badge.