One year ago I started tracking my own contributions to Drupal.org and posting a report on my Mastodon account. See the last quarter of 2025 report as an example. The goal is not to flex (it would be cheating given that Acquia sponsors me for working on Drupal Canvas almost full time); and this is far from being a good way of tracking contributions or your own productivity, but it's better than nothing.
Still, it helps me evaluate where I've been focusing (out of necessity, from being nerdsniped, or just for fun), and check if I need to balance that for my "volunteer" contributions. In this last year I've been appointed as Drupal CMS committer (which includes maintainership of 20+ projects 😱😱😱), and Drupal Core subsystem maintainer for Content Translation and Language modules. So tracking where my efforts go is really helpful for self-accountability.
And to be fair, I spent more time maintaining this blog than writing, so finding a new topic that is recurrent is a good way to force me to keep it up to date 😅.
In the last 4 quarters I've been tracking this, it's been ~1 credit per day among all projects. Last quarter I had credits at 1295 issues. As of now, it's 1376. So 81 new credits, vs 93 last quarter, which is a little below 1 credit/day.
Breaking those down:
Canvas: 143 (+61)
Core: 150 (+8)
CMS*: 42 (+4)
Dashboard: 61 (+3)
I also enjoy contributing to projects like DDEV, which helps me learn Golang and clear my mind from working on the same stack. Recently I've been working on Add --project/-p flag to ddev exec command to target a named DDEV project from any directory and it was just merged!
And I've been pushing a bit this quarter to keep the Drupal Canvas development DDEV add-on up to date, with several improvements and releases.
Hope to write again before July 1st!
Happy coding! 🎉🎉
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Hell yeah!
Hell yeah!