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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
    71contributions
    high17
    medium54
    score105
    Last 90 days
    110contributions
    high24
    medium86
    score158
    Last 12 months
    211contributions
    high89
    medium122
    score389

    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 07 Wed · 18:05
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #660 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Skip the unit and E2E suites on pull requests that change only…
    Oct 07 Wed · 17:44
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #546 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Document the release process in RELEASING.md
    Oct 07 Wed · 17:30
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #622 on the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Wrap the rest of the app's strings for translation
    Oct 07 Wed · 17:26
    GitHub med
    Created issue #659 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    i18n: Translate the text Chromium and Electron draw themselves
    Oct 07 Wed · 17:22
    GitHub med
    Created issue #658 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    i18n: Replace the window's confirm() and alert(), whose OK and Cancel Electron…
    Oct 07 Wed · 17:22
    GitHub med
    Created issue #657 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    i18n: Translate the app menu's standard items, which Electron labels in English
    Oct 07 Wed · 17:16
    GitHub med
    Submitted pull request #656 to WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Make the folder fields a button, so Chromium draws none of their…
    Oct 07 Wed · 16:51
    GitHub med
    Created issue #655 in the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Translate the folder fields' "Choose Files" and "No file chosen", which Chromium…
    Oct 07 Wed · 16:45
    GitHub med
    Closed issue #648 on the WordPress/contributor-toolkit repository:
    Translate the screen-reader "Notifications" text that @wordpress/a11y adds before the locale loads
    Oct 07 Wed · 16:45
    GitHub high
    Merged pull request #654 into WordPress/contributor-toolkit:
    Translate the line a screen reader says before each announcement

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