The year in retrospective, and what's to come

[Byron]

And 365 days later as of 2022-12-31, we are counting 106.492 SLOC (up by 44.354) and 170.544 lines total (up by 83.204 mostly due to auto-generated changelogs) in 9.988 commits (up by 4.317). There are 51 crates (up by 24) and 4 binaries, withein and gix as part of gitoxide and cargo smart-release and cargo-changelog as part of tooling. There are 57 unique authors (up by 36). This means ~121 lines per day (down by 52) in ~12 commits each day (up by 1). On GitHub there are 5165 stars (up by 2386) for ~6.5 stars per day.

The tool invocation ein tools estimate-hours now rates the project cost at 6822 hours (up by 3199) or ~853 in 8 hour working days, for an average working time of 8.8 hours in the past 365 days. My timetracker reveals that I spent 1231h on open source work which is dominated by gitoxide and which is supported via GitHub sponsors. 136h were for paid closed-source work and consulting, whereas the Rust Foundation grant motivated 460h to improve gitoxide and drive grant-goals forward. The total is 1828 hours worked which boils down to 5 hours of work per day (35h per week). Coincidentally, this is inline with my prediction from last year where I was hoping for 5h per day of sustained work. More importantly, it is financially sustainable at a little more than two times the German minimal wage per net per hour.

Thus far, I have dedicated the last 989 days to getting gitoxide off the ground, and I feel it's finally breaking through 🎉.

What's planned for 2023

The cargo integration will be the main driver in terms of features which should make gitoxide feasible for a great variety of projects. The anticipated feature-set would include…

• a GitHub action for faster clones and checkouts
• shallow clones
• fully functional worktree checkout and reset (with filters) and submodules
• native support for git upload-pack which would also be a building block for a git server
• a native ssh transport
• worktree status
• add worktree files to index and create a tree + commit

Probably we should add push support for good measure to complete everything related to transport git repositories over the wire. It would be an incredible feat to also have a first integrated git server up and running, on the level of git-daemon at least with options to turn it into a customisable HTTP server as well, even though it seems unlikely there is enough time for that.

In order to achieve all of the above, I hope that I can increase my sustained daily effective work time to 6h per day for 2190ish hours in total.

Some words of Gratitude

By now I am able to humbly sustain myself and my family while following my calling, and for that I am incredibly grateful - I simply couldn't imagine a better use of my (life)time. Doing so would not be possible without the generosity of my sponsors: thank you, thank you so much!

This year also brought more contributions than ever before, and I am thankful for every single one of them, be it PRs with fixes and improvements, or discussions to help me see the problems gitoxide has to solve. Thank you for your contributions!

There are a few people and entities I would like to call out specifically this year, it's definitely personal :).

Thank you, Josh!

Josh Triplett, a well-known member of the Rust community, back in May 2021 suggested to turn on the GitHub sponsorship feature to become my first sponsor, and start making gitoxide financially sustainable. He supported me ever since in more ways than I can count and definitely changed my life to the better, having been incredibly impactful with maybe a few well-placed nudges here and there. gitoxide wouldn't be what it is today without him, and I am deeply grateful for that.

Let's make it happen in 2023 :)!

Thank you, Paul, of Codebase!

Earlier this year Paul approached me about bringing git onto the internet computer, an endeavour which since has resulted in the launch of codebase.org. Thanks to him, gitoxide get's to go where no git has gone before, and to me the most notable artifact of our collaboration is the max-pure build target that became possible thanks to the sponsored reqwest HTTP transport. Thank you, Paul, for providing such a valuable perspective, and I am curious what 2023 brings :).

Thank you, Cargo team!

Even before gitoxide arrived in cargo I was implementing my first cargo feature thanks to the sponsorship of Profian that was arranged by, you guessed it, Josh Triplett. That was were I met the fine folks of the Cargo team whose humble and kind reviews are aspirational for the gitoxide project by now. Thank you all, for handling everyone's PRs the way you do, I absolutely appreciate your time and value every interaction.

I hope in 2023 we can bring cargo to new heights together :).

Thank you, Docs.rs team!

In 2022 I became a member of the docs.rs team - it all happened so fast! And as member of the team, we managed to lift the crates-index-diff crate that powers docs.rs's build triggers onto a new quality level by bringing in gitoxide and an entirely new diffing engine. The latter wouldn't have been possible without the incredible work of Pascal Kuthe, and I hope that won't be the last time we can excel together.
Now that the dust has settled I feel I can slowly grow into the docs.rs team, learn from its members and see how critical infrastructure is run in an open-source environment. Thanks for having me, I hope I can meet you one day.

Thank you, Rust Foundation!

With every breath I am turning gitoxide into foundational software that is not only powering a growing number of applications but one day critical infrastructure as well. This year, the Rust Foundation provided grants to finance the development of gitoxide and its integration into existing software, and by continuing to do so it is a pillar of sustainable development. Thank you for your trust!

It is my hope that as the Rust Foundation evolves, it can help gitoxide to become more community driven without an over-reliance on a single person.

Have a great year 2023!

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Thanks for reading, let's make 2023 a great year for everyone :)!