2019 was a fantastic year for contributions and community involvement. During the year our contributors created over 8,000 pull requests across Magento GitHub repositories! Even more exciting is that over 8,500 were processed, meaning we made a significant dent in the backlog! We would like to extend a big thank you to all our contributors, maintainers and partners that did awesome work constantly iterating on Magento projects. We want to take some time and make some space in this post to look back at 2019 and highlight the amazing achievements of the community.
🌎 Events Around the World
2019 was extraordinarily full of events:
- 🗣 Over 750 talks were presented at Magento conferences and meetups in over 40 different countries
- 🏗 25 contribution days were held
✨ New Community Projects
Our community has grown a lot during the past year, and we used this opportunity to start several new projects!
Adobe Stock Integration
Shout out to the awesome Adobe Stock Integration team that built the project from scratch and marched toward the first release of the project which is slated for the end of this month!
To name but a few of the project regulars:
- Alex Shkurko and Dmitry Kaplin from Magecom laid down the project base and made sure the technical approach is up to the best practices and the latest trends
- Shankar Konar shaped and stabilized the frontend of the project
- Adarsh Manickam from Zilker Technology joined the project just in time to lead a bug fixing spree and providing MFTF test coverage
- Yaroslav Rogoza, Serhiy Zhovnir and Eduard Chitoraga from Atwix have done huge contributions for key functionality and advanced parts of the codebase
- Also, we cannot underestimate Yaroslav Rogoza's, Vladimir Fishchenko's and Raul Watson’s help with maintaining the project and doing timely code reviews
Thank you so much!
We also had several other new community projects spring up during the year too:
🛋 Community Project Highlights
GraphQL Project
Last month we wrote about our march toward the upcoming Magento 2.4 release and in that blog post we discussed the incredible achievements of the GraphQL project during the course of last year. Check the post out to get a taste of what that project has accomplished!
Async Import
After successful completion of the Magento Asynchronous API and Bulk API projects, the next step of our planned Asynchronous track work was implementing Asynchronous Magento Import. This feature has the potential to replace the default Magento import functionality. The project was started in the middle of 2019 and led by Oleksandr Lyzun of comwrap. This effort intends to make the import process more flexible, performant and stable. After multiple architectural planning discussions, project development is currently underway and the first version is planned to be released in the middle of this year.
Many thanks to Alex Vasiliev of comwrap, who participated in the Magento Bulk API project and is still working with us on the Asynchronous Import project and to Hitarth Pattani who actively took part in prototyping the first drafts of the project. Last, big shoutout to all developers who invested their time in helping move the project forward.
Multi Source Inventory (MSI)
The Multi Source Inventory (MSI) community project is designed to enable stock management in multiple locations so that merchants can properly reflect their physical inventory in Magento without having to use extensions or customization. The community is integral to this project and we are thankful for the continued involvement of some of our top project champions:
- Thanks to Aleksandr Kravchuk and Max Novik for development of one of the largest features on MSI: In-Store Pickup. These two developed all the interfaces, implementation and even the tests from scratch!
- Another great contribution from Mateusz Krzeszowiak integrated the In-Store Pickup feature to the Checkout flow and introduced an ability to use a new delivery method during Checkout! Right now the feature is almost complete and will be available soon!
- Stepan Furman from Techdivision made huge steps implementing Bundle product support in MSI. He has implemented general functionality and is working on the rest of the use cases. Bundle product support is the last big feature that is left to implement for the MSI project!
- Vadim Justus from Techdivision made several performance improvements to speed up the calculation mechanism for reservation inconsistencies and made it less resource-intensive.
🏆 GitHub Top Contributors
We are also very proud to announce our GitHub top contributors! We deeply appreciate these people and the huge amount of work they accomplished to make Magento better:
👨👩👧👦 Community Maintainers
Magento is lucky to have a dedicated Community Maintainers team made up of community champions helping the project process issues and pull requests. From verifying and triaging issues to reviewing, accepting and rejecting pull requests, Community Maintainers are the heartbeat of the Magento ecosystem.
💪 Maintainers Work Visualized
We are excited to share some of the stats showing off the amazing results of the year, mostly thanks to our Community Maintainers, starting with pull requests:
Similar visualization for issues:
Our maintainers team 👨👩👧👦 is growing as well. At the end of 2019 the team more than doubled in size, with 41 members comparing to 18 members in 2018!
🏆 Top Community Maintainers
On top of our top GitHub contributors, we wanted to particularly highlight our top Community Maintainers from 2019. A special shoutout to Yaroslav Rogoza, Lyzun Oleksandr and Oleksandr Kravchuk for being not only a top Community Maintainer in 2019 but also cracking the Top Individual GitHub Contributors list - truly impressive!
🤝 Solution Partners
Magento works with business and agencies across the world helping customers everywhere meet their eCommerce needs. We want to take a moment to appreciate the following top agencies for their continued support and contributions to Magento. Thank you!
🕴 Community Insiders
Community Insiders are agencies with a certified Magento developer on staff and we also want to recognize our Top Insiders for their efforts last year:
🙌 Thank You!
The Magento projects are improved daily, and year over year, with the integral help of our contributors and maintainers. Working with them has been a pleasure and we cannot say enough good things about them! Your professionalism, collaborative spirit and passion is what has brought us to where we are today. Thank you!