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Ryan Welcher

Developer Relations Advocate at Automattic

@welcher Bracebridge Ontario joined Jan 2011

www.ryanwelcher.com github.com/ryanwelcher Slack: @welcher
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    Current Job

    Developer Relations Advocate
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    Automattic

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

    Last 30 days
    126contributions
    high40
    medium86
    score206
    Last 90 days
    158contributions
    high45
    medium113
    score248
    Last 12 months
    264contributions
    high107
    medium157
    score478

    Team focus

    Share of contributions across teams during the last 365 days

    WordPress releases

    Contributed to 29 releases
    • 7.1
    • 7.0
    • 6.9
    • 6.8
    • 6.7
    • 6.6
    • 6.5
    • 6.4
    • 6.3
    • 6.2
    • 6.1
    • 6.0
    • 5.9
    • 5.8
    • 5.6
    • 5.5
    • 5.4
    • 5.3
    • 5.2
    • 5.1
    • 5.0
    • 4.9
    • 4.8
    • 4.7
    • 4.6
    • 4.5
    • 4.4
    • 4.3
    • 4.2

    Contributions

    Type
    October 2026
    Oct 23 Fri · 23:38
    Core high
    Mentioned in [64692] on WordPress SVN:
    Tests: Lowercase the `Option` group in `Tests_Option_wpAutoloadValuesToAutoload`.
    Oct 23 Fri · 20:03
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #712 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Add the 2.0 Make Core post to the README
    Oct 23 Fri · 20:02
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #712 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Add the 2.0 Make Core post to the README
    Oct 23 Fri · 17:45
    Meta high
    Wrote a new post, WordPress Contributor Toolkit 2.0: A redesigned app, in your language, on the site Make WordPress Core:
    TL;DR: WordPress Contributor Toolkit v2.0.0 has been released with a new interface built on the…
    Oct 23 Fri · 15:09
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #711 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Bump version to 2.0.0
    Oct 23 Fri · 14:17
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #711 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Bump version to 2.0.0
    Oct 23 Fri · 14:14
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #710 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Add a release skill, and put every release command in RELEASING.md
    Oct 22 Thu · 17:28
    GitHub med
    Created issue #709 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Add toggle to show/hide linked PRs and patches
    Oct 22 Thu · 16:13
    Core med
    Submitted pull request #14742 to WordPress/wordpress-develop:
    Change the case for test group
    Oct 22 Thu · 16:12
    Core med
    Created ticket #66366 on Core Trac:
    Tests: Lowercase the "Option" group in ...

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