One year on the plugin review team

Exactly one year ago, a confused young man named Francisco joined the WordPress.org Plugin Review Team.

That has changed a good part of my life.

In this past year:

• I have sent 6572 emails.
• I have made 345 commits to internal tools, creating 56 new automated checks.
• I have approved more than 600 plugins.
• I have dedicated more than 900 hours.

I have contributed evenings, nights, holidays and weekends. In trains, apartments, hotels, and friends’ houses.

I have participated more actively in the WordCamps contributor’s day, being part of the plugins table.

I have traveled twice to SiteGround headquarters. They are great and are helping me a lot along the way.

Besides, I had a great time around the office with Lucia.

In these months, I have woken up more than one day at 6 a.m., because between dreams I had come up with an algorithm and had to go to the computer to program and test it. When this happens to me, I feel really inspired and I cannot do anything else.

I have met and re-meet wonderful people and learned a lot. I have felt supported by the community.

I never thought that a responsibility would motivate me in this way, nor did I think it would absorb me in this way.

The house has been dirty, the plants have not been watered, my social life has been affected, in the month of March I felt totally burned out.

Fortunately, I was able to handle it in time and got out and moved on. I’m not an example of anything, because I know I still neglect many things and my life is still far from normal (maybe this is a new normal?) but I’m fine, which is the important thing.

This year I have discovered that there are people who have trusted me more than I trust myself.

Thanks to everyone with whom I have shared moments. Thanks to the community. Thanks to SiteGround because their support is essential for all this to happen and to continue happening.

Thanks to you, anonymous reader, for your interest.

And special thanks to Roberto, because he is helping me a lot professionally and personally.

Today I am finishing preparing the WordCamp Europe talk in which I will tell part of what has happened this year (although it will be less personal).

For me it is a new challenge, my first public talk in a long time and in a language I do not master.

WordPress.org plugin repository, a year in review

See you soon.