The KDE project turns 30 in a few weeks. Over the years, the KDE team has provided the open source community with one of the most popular desktop environments, a suite of office applications, various web browsers, and much more. 
Kevin Ottens takes a moment to look at contributor statistics over the years, presenting data on the size of the KDE community and code commits.
“We did a quick look back at the last thirty years of code commit data. I would also like to process the merge requests, but at this scale the process is extremely time-consuming, so I may do that another time, focusing on something more specific.”
“In any case, I am very happy that KDE, as a whole, seems to be in very good shape. The last time I did a similar analysis, the conclusion was uncertain, as we wondered whether the community would ever recover from the “great activity crisis of 2010”.
“In my opinion, the recovery has occurred and with a few more years like 2026, we could reach or even surpass 2010 levels. I think we are already seeing the first signs of this development.”
Although the press releases will range from very select to rare, I said I'd pass...because sometimes the editors hide.
