quarterly-report

Last April I started blogging about my quarterly contributions as a way to look back and see what I've been working on, even if I've been tracking for 6 quarters already.

On Drupal.org, last quarter I had credits at 1376. Now it's 1495. So 119 new credits, which is above 1.3 credits/day. Just by numbers, this is the biggest quarter since I have been tracking it.

Breaking those down, all of them have been on my 4 focus projects:

Canvas: 247 (+104)
Core: 162 (+12)
CMS*: 44 (+2)
Dashboard: 62 (+1)

Of course the majority of them concentrate in Drupal Canvas. Thanks Acquia for sponsoring lots of my open-source work.

This doesn't measure at all complexity, but I feel like these on Canvas have been more complex on average: bugs and features are definitely harder to implement. I guess I ate the AI Red Pill 🤷🏽. But it's not just 2x quantity-wise than previous quarter, it has a bigger impact quality-wise. 

And these numbers don't track the work on security fixes and/or releases which I've been doing for Canvas. 

I'd highlight that, outside of Drupal, I also got my first contributions to jsonrainbow/json-schema, the PHP library that Drupal core and Canvas use for JSON Schema validation. 

Happy coding! 🎉

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! 🎉🎉