Along with our other initiatives including hackathons, slack discussions, and special projects, Magento Community Engineering rolled out a program for rewarding Partners Contributions for the created pull requests.
Since we launched the reward program, 28 Partners joined the effort and started addressing the most important Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source issues and fixes. Here are the Q3 finalists who actively participated in the contribution process and signed up for the reward program.
The scoring criteria for pull requests were simple:
- 10 reward points for the merged PR
- 50 reward points for the partner who merged most PRs within a month
- 30 reward points for the Complex PR
- 20 reward points for the Advanced PR
- 20 reward points for the Special Achievement
We are considering updating the criteria’s in the next quarter and it will get additional categories. Please follow our updates.
We have carefully analyzed all the statistic about the merged pull requests, doing the code review and analysis of the communications with the contributors. Here are the leaders for Q3.
1st place: Kega
Kega is a retail agency from the Netherlands, specialized in implementing eCommerce solutions that combine both on and offline sales, called Everywhere Commerce. Kega joined the partners reward program in June and They proactively created pull requests to the Magento Commerce even when there was no mechanism provided to merge them.
Kega has 19 pull requests merged to the mainline. Three of them were merged to Magento Commerce and 16 to the Magento Open Source. These included:
- 2 advanced pull requests: “Fix JS translation search” magento/magento2#10445 and “Add command/option to deploy command to refresh the version” magento/magento2#9915
- 1 complex pull requests: “Instantly apply configuration changes in the cron schedule” magento/magento2#9957
All PRs from the Kega were accompanied by good test coverage. Kega was selected as a top of the month partner contributor three times: June (8 PRs merged), July (6 PRs merged) and August (5 PRs merged)
Total number of reward points scored: 410
First place entitles them to receive 5 Magento Activity Points!
2nd place: TechDivision
TechDivision is a young and dynamic team of more than 80 people working in graphic design, web development, project management, and online marketing. For more than 17 years they have impressed with online projects, and have supported customers throughout the whole planning, conceptual, and implementation stages of web based technologies and online marketing strategies.
Over the last four months, TechDivision delivered 11 pull requests to the MSI source code, working primarily on the Multi-Source Inventory initiative. These included:
- 2 advanced contributions: magento-engcom/msi#26 with the Source Management APIs and magento-engcom/msi#49 with the MSI stock indexing.
- 1 complex pull request, magento-engcom/msi#38 with the API and UI for the Source Items Management.
TechDivision is the first partner who joined MSI working dedicated their time and participated in the design and implementation of the MSI features. They joined internal discussions on the product and had constant deliverables every week.
MSI track is an important direction in the platform development, that’s why pull requests with the new features there are scored with the “special achievement” label. TechDivision created 5 features with this label.
Total number of reward points scored: 280
Second place entitles them to receive 4 Magento Activity Points!
3nd place: Experius
Experius, winner of the shooting star award 2017, is an eCommerce agency from Utrecht, The Netherlands, that plans, builds, and implements successful B2B and B2C solutions for Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source.
They delivered eight pull requests to the mainline working on the improvements to the Magento Open Source product. Experius also become top of the month contributor with eight pull requests merged in September. The 10 pull requests from Experius yet to be merged will be taken into account in the next quarter.
Total number of reward points scored: 130
Third place entitles them to receive 3 Magento Activity Points!
Active members
Additionally, I want to mention Partners are also actively contributing:
- Vaimo: Delivered five PRs since June and escalated important questions which lead to architectural proposals in the Magento Framework.
- SNOW.DOG: Delivered four PRs and has two more in progress, working on bugfixes and backporting them to the Magento Commerce 2.1 release.
- interactiv4: Delivered three PRs and another four are in reviews for the next reward period in Q4. They were working on important fixes to the Magento Commerce and Magento Open Source cores.
Thank you for the contribution and keep doing the amazing job of supporting the Magento Open Source spirit.