Plone is shared infrastructure.
It is sustained not only by visible feature work, but also by maintenance, security response, documentation, triage, onboarding, review, governance, events, coordination, and financial support. In a mature open-source project, this care work is essential. But too often it remains hard to see.
That creates a real problem for Plone.
When contribution signals are scattered across repositories, issue trackers, labels, and workflow logs,
- newcomers struggle to find a safe and understandable way in.
- Existing contributors do important work without enough recognition.
- Teams know they need help, but their needs are not always visible in a form that feels concrete, discoverable, and immediately actionable. The result is friction, overload, and avoidable invisibility around the work that keeps the project healthy.
This repository is an experimental step to reduce that gap.
Its purpose is to turn public activity and contribution signals from the Plone ecosystem into stable, reusable public outputs. That helps make stewardship visible, highlights where work is happening, and shows where help is needed. It also supports a broader understanding of contribution in Plone: not only code, but documentation, review, mentoring, governance, organization, and financial support as well.
In that sense, this is not just a reporting repository. It is part of the effort to make contribution in Plone easier to recognize, easier to navigate, and easier to join. Recognition is not a vanity exercise. It is part of how a community builds trust, distributes responsibility, lowers the barrier to participation, and protects the long-term sustainability of the commons.
Over time, this repository is meant to help Plone present contribution as visible stewardship rather than hidden background labor. It should make active needs easier to surface, make ongoing work easier to understand, and give both people and external services a stable way to follow what the community is doing and what the community needs.
- Weekly digest of GitHub activity across the Plone ecosystem, with generated summaries and highlights.
- Help wanted issues across the Plone ecosystem, with generated summaries and highlights.
Explore the published outputs here.