Drupal project lead Dries Buytaert gives an overview of the major points of his bi-annual State of Drupal keynote address and talks about the future of scaling out the Drupal community, what moving to a distributed revision control system of git may mean for Drupal, as well as the latest news from Acquia and Mollom.

Dries talks about how about 50% of the work in Drupal 7 was done by 25-30 developers, and so he had Greg Knaddison gather up a list of the top 20 patch contributors for Drupal 7 by looking through the CVS commit message attributions for Drupal 7.

1. catch 337 patches
2. sun 313 patches
3. Damien Tournoud (DamZ) 265 patches
4. yched 212 patches
5. chx 197 patches
6. Dave Reid 188 patches
7. jhodgdon 159 patches
8. pwolanin 158 patches
9. David_Rothstein 132 patches
10. boombatower 125 patches
11. c960657 122 patches
12. Crell 103 patches
13. moshe weitzman 89 patches
14. dww 84 patches
15. Berdir 81 patches
16. Gábor Hojtsy 76 patches
17. andypost 68 patches
18. quicksketch 67 patches
19. drewish 67 patches
20. johnalbin 65 patches

Derek Wright also posted a list of top Drupal Developers who have marked issues as duplicate as another metric of participation.

You can watch the full State of Drupal keynote down below: