Looking at the graph below that is showing my curl commits and everyone else’s over time, it seems to imply that while I have kept my pace pretty consistently over the last few years, others in the curl project have stepped up their game and commit more.
Commits done in curl over time, by Daniel and by “everyone else”
This means that my share of the total number of commits keep shrinking and also that I personally am nowadays often not the developer doing the most curl commits per month.
This is all good. We need even more contributors and people involved. We see on average about eight new commit authors every month.
Number of new commit authors per month in the curl project, over time.
The previous one thousand commits I did took me 422 days. These latest one thousand commits took me 387 days. If I manage to maintain this exact frequency, I will reach 20K commits on April 5 2026.
We have almost 11 years of source code history covered and I personally have done some ~68% of all commits. Given this long history it is fun to see some very clear trends. Like this first one: look at the distribution of commits per weekday over the entire period. The amount of commits done during weekends are significantly lower than during the work week, and the Sunday amount is clearly even lower than Saturday:
Similarly, we can see how the activity is spread out over calendar months. This shows an obvious correlation to the slower periods in my life, which means that July is vacation times and the numbers show it:
