As you may or not have seen from my original tweet or from the make WordPress blog, in November, it was announced that I am now officially a WordPress core committer.
It has been over a month, since I tweeted about this and a lot has happened. I have been very actively involved in the WordPress 5.9 beta process. Even commiting a number, 52342, 52286, 52268 of important bug fixes and feature of the part of this release. But I haven’t really taken the time to think about this massive honor that I have been given. I have been working on open source, since 2009 and have been actively contributing to WordPress since 2013. I have got many features and tweaks merged to core over this time. But I have always had an eye set on getting commit access someday. It is a goal I set for myself back in 2019. I remember talking to friends at Wordcamp US 2019 about it. Having a goal in life is important and I wanted to good enough to call myself a core committer. It is something I worked really hard at, helping wherever I could and just writing good, well tested code. I don’t take this honor lightly and I understand the pressures this put me under. But this is something that is personally very important to me. It is honestly one of the proudest moment of my life when I finally got this access. There are so many people that have helped me on journey, that if I tried to list them all, I would forget people. But I would like to make special shout out to Pascal Birchler, who nominated me for WordPress committer access and supported me all along the way.
I now understand much better, how much work goes into even the most simple patch. Checking, rechecking, run lints and unit tests. Even commiting a simple patch to core can take hours and hours of your life. I am not sure, that people really understand how much love and care go into WordPress. People build WordPress not code. I have a new found respect for all my follow committers.
If you are interested in sponsor my open source work, I have enabled sponsorship via github.
Thank you to everyone to help me along the way and he is to making 43% of the web better!