Commit announcements for 3.9

Lots of news to share! First: Helen Hou-Sandí has had guest commit for the past three release cycles. She’s been spending the last year reviewing contributions, mentoring contributors, and working on some of our larger UIUI User interface projects. I’m proud to announce @helen is now a permanent committercommitter A developer with commit access. WordPress has five lead developers and four permanent core developers with commit access. Additionally, the project usually has a few guest or component committers - a developer receiving commit access, generally for a single release cycle (sometimes renewed) and/or for a specific component. to WordPress!

We’ve invited John Blackbourn (@johnbillion) to be a committer for the 3.9 cycle. His strong, consistent contributions have been backed by excellent judgment and temperament.

Matt Thomas, who led the dashboard redesign in 3.8 (and 3.2, and 2.7, etc.), will keep his commit to continue to maintain and improve WordPress UI. He’s been a great mentor to many contributing designers and his long-term impact is indelible.

For the last few years, we’ve been granting commit access on per-cycle basis, sometimes for a particular component, feature, etc. Generally, after about a year, a guest committer can be considered for permanent commit access. Dominik Schilling, Sergey Biryukov, Drew Jaynes, and Scott Taylor have all had their commit extended for 3.9.

Drew (@DrewAPicture) was given temporary commit for inline documentation starting with 3.7. He’s been heading up the long-running initiative to document every hook in WordPress. Scott (@wonderboymusic) also started committing during 3.7, and has a particular penchant for digging deep into the query and taxonomyTaxonomy A taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, some common taxonomies are category, link, tag, or post format. https://codex.wordpress.org/Taxonomies#Default_Taxonomies. APIs. And Sergey (@SergeyBiryukov) and Dominik (@ocean90), well, they are forces of nature.

(@aaroncampbell was also given guest commit in 3.7, but he ended up not having much time to use it.)

Here’s a full list of those with permanent commit: @markjaquith, @ryan, @westi, @matt, @azaozz, @dd32, @koopersmith, @duck_, @helen, and me (@nacin); @lancewillett for bundled themes; @iammattthomas for UI. You might have also seen commits before from @josephscott (XML-RPC), @nbachiyski (internationalization), and @mdawaffe (secret weapon for really tricky problems).

Next weekly meeting is January 8. Happy new year, everyone. Here’s to a great 2014.

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