Now that GTK+ 3.22.0 and GLib 2.50.0 have been released, it’s time to look back at this development cycle and see the contributions from people and companies that made these releases possible.

Activity

During the 3.22 development cycle, GLib saw a total of 14119 lines added, 2031 removed, for a net gain of 12088 lines:

GTK+, instead, saw a total of 46581 lines added, 19163 removed, for a net gain of 27418 lines:

The statistics do not include translations.

Contributors

GLib

GLib saw contributions from 60 individuals:

The trend for contributors in GLib in increasing, even if the size of changes has decreasing.

Developers with the most changesets Matthias Clasen 60 24.7% Philip Withnall 44 18.1% Chun-wei Fan 18 7.4% Mario Sanchez Prada 10 4.1% Allison Lortie 7 2.9% Ruslan Izhbulatov 7 2.9% Emmanuele Bassi 6 2.5% Krzesimir Nowak 6 2.5% Jonh Wendell 5 2.1% Cosimo Cecchi 5 2.1% Simon McVittie 4 1.6% Ondrej Holy 4 1.6% Christoph Reiter 4 1.6% Rico Tzschichholz 3 1.2% Dan Winship 3 1.2% Aurélien Zanelli 3 1.2% Kjell Ahlstedt 2 0.8% Piotr Drąg 2 0.8% Colin Walters 2 0.8% Emilio Pozuelo Monfort 2 0.8%

Developers with the most changed lines Matthias Clasen 7797 53.6% Philip Withnall 2736 18.8% Cosimo Cecchi 767 5.3% Chun-wei Fan 674 4.6% Mario Sanchez Prada 418 2.9% Allison Lortie 365 2.5% Christoph Reiter 319 2.2% Krzesimir Nowak 220 1.5% Jonh Wendell 178 1.2% Ruslan Izhbulatov 163 1.1% Marc-Antoine Perennou 142 1.0% Emmanuele Bassi 104 0.7% Tim-Philipp Müller 81 0.6% Benjamin Otte 79 0.5% Ondrej Holy 48 0.3% Giovanni Campagna 43 0.3% Jeremy Whiting 34 0.2% Debarshi Ray 33 0.2% Stephan Bergmann 32 0.2% Christian Persch 30 0.2%

Matthias Clasen and Philip Withnall have been the biggest contributors, this cycle. Matthias worked on the portals implementation for allowing sandboxed applications to access system services; Philip worked on the new structured logging API.

GTK+

GTK+ saw contributions from 75 developers:

The number of contributors is trending downwards, and given that the amount of changes has also reduced, it’s likely a reflection on the overall stabilization process towards the 3.22 long term release.

Developers with the most changesets Matthias Clasen 369 37.3% Lapo Calamandrei 73 7.4% Carlos Garnacho 69 7.0% Timm Bäder 67 6.8% Emmanuele Bassi 60 6.1% Ruslan Izhbulatov 30 3.0% Jonas Ådahl 28 2.8% Benjamin Otte 25 2.5% Olivier Fourdan 21 2.1% Matt Watson 21 2.1% Sébastien Wilmet 18 1.8% Chun-wei Fan 13 1.3% Andreas Pokorny 12 1.2% Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 12 1.2% Christian Hergert 12 1.2% Piotr Drąg 11 1.1% Tristan Van Berkom 11 1.1% Ray Strode 10 1.0% Stephen Chandler Paul 9 0.9% William Hua 8 0.8%

Developers with the most changed lines Matthias Clasen 14378 28.2% William Hua 6212 12.2% Ruslan Izhbulatov 5222 10.2% Lapo Calamandrei 4383 8.6% Carlos Garnacho 3510 6.9% Emmanuele Bassi 1947 3.8% Matt Watson 1811 3.6% Georges Basile Stavracas Neto 1805 3.5% Jonas Ådahl 1647 3.2% Chun-wei Fan 1195 2.3% Stephen Chandler Paul 1099 2.2% Timm Bäder 1018 2.0% Sébastien Wilmet 865 1.7% Benjamin Otte 793 1.6% Javier Jardón 655 1.3% Alexander Larsson 486 1.0% Andreas Pokorny 358 0.7% Tristan Van Berkom 333 0.7% Jakub Steiner 317 0.6% Mohammed Sadiq 298 0.6%

Just like he did in GLib, Matthias worked on implementing support for portals inside GTK+, especially the ones that require user interaction like file selection and printing; Carlos Garnacho worked on the graphic tablets support in Wayland; Jonas Ådahl and Olivier Fourdan worked on the windowing system issues of the Wayland backend; William Hua worked on improving the Mir backend; Ruslan Izhbulatov and Chun-wei Fan worked on the Windows backend, especially with regards to keyboard input; Emmanuele worked on adding GLES support to the GdkGLContext API; Timm Bäder worked on GtkPopover ; Matt Watson worked on GtkStack and the internal animation handling.

Affiliations

As usual, much of these changes would not have been possible without the contribution of various companies.

For GLib:

Top changeset contributors by employer Red Hat 84 34.6% (Unknown) 78 32.1% Collabora 43 17.7% Endless 22 9.1% Canonical 12 4.9% Centricular 2 0.8% Intel 2 0.8%

Employers with the most hackers (Unknown) 33 52.4% Red Hat 14 22.2% Collabora 4 6.3% Endless 4 6.3% Canonical 4 6.3% Centricular 2 3.2% Intel 2 3.2%

For GTK+:

Top changeset contributors by employer Red Hat 548 55.4% (Unknown) 333 33.7% Endless 97 9.8% Collabora 6 0.6% Canonical 4 0.4% Centricular 1 0.1%