April was a month where I focused on the maintenance and security releases for WordPress. The month for WordPress started with the release of 6.5, but for me the month began as one of the leads working to release 6.5.1 6.5.2 on 9 April. This release wouldn’t have happened without several other amazing contributors. Getting many versions of WordPress released at once can be a challenge. In this case, folks started at about 11pm the night before, I joined in at 8am, and the post announcing the release was published at 5pm.
One of the fun parts about working on open source is that I can work from anywhere. In April I took that to mean I could work from a pool and committed code while most of my body was in the pool. My dream remains to commit code from a hot air balloon.
Next week, WordPress 6.5.3 is scheduled to be released. A number of contributors (What is the number? No idea, I have to work on adding them up still) have helped get the next maintenance release ready.
After 6.5.3, my plan is to focus on documentation and some build related tools. I would like to get https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/60966 finished up in order to help make maintenance and security releases easier.
By the numbers
During the month of April, I contributed to 59 tickets on trac, made 5 commits to core, received 42 props, ran 5 bug scrubs, and worked approximately 105 hours on WordPress, of which my sponsors paid for slightly less than 17 and I donated the rest.
I had 13 sponsors this month: JeffMatson, jeffpaul, philipjohn, zstepek, kkoppenhaver, mamaduka, kingkool68, austinginder, adamsilverstein, felixarntz, Emilia-Capital, desrosj and one who wishs to remain anonymous. Thank you for believing in and supporting my contributions to Open Source.
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