--- title: "Dries Buytaert on the State of Drupal 2010" url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/dries-buytaert-on-the-state-of-drupal-2010" type: episode date: 2010-04-29 updated: 2014-04-09 --- # Dries Buytaert on the State of Drupal 2010 # Dries Buytaert on the State of Drupal 2010 *Podcast episode player* 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](https://www.acquia.com/) and [Mollom.](https://acquia.my.site.com/s/article/360014100213-Mollom-End-of-Life-Announcement) Dries talks about how about 50% of the work in Drupal 7 was done by 25-30 developers, and so he had [Greg Knaddison](http://drupal.org/user/36762) 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](http://drupal.org/user/35733) 337 patches 2. [sun](http://drupal.org/user/54136) 313 patches 3. [Damien Tournoud (DamZ)](http://drupal.org/user/22211) 265 patches 4. [yched](http://drupal.org/user/39567) 212 patches 5. [chx](http://drupal.org/user/9446) 197 patches 6. [Dave Reid](http://drupal.org/user/53892) 188 patches 7. [jhodgdon](http://drupal.org/user/155601) 159 patches 8. [pwolanin](http://drupal.org/user/49851) 158 patches 9. [David\_Rothstein](http://drupal.org/user/124982) 132 patches 10. [boombatower](http://drupal.org/user/214218) 125 patches 11. [c960657](http://drupal.org/user/216078) 122 patches 12. [Crell](http://drupal.org/user/26398) 103 patches 13. [moshe weitzman](http://drupal.org/user/23) 89 patches 14. [dww](http://drupal.org/user/46549) 84 patches 15. [Berdir ](http://drupal.org/user/214652) 81 patches 16. [Gábor Hojtsy](http://drupal.org/user/4166) 76 patches 17. [andypost](http://drupal.org/user/118908) 68 patches 18. [quicksketch](http://drupal.org/user/35821) 67 patches 19. [drewish](http://drupal.org/user/34869) 67 patches 20. [johnalbin](http://drupal.org/user/32095) 65 patches Derek Wright also posted a [list of top Drupal Developers who have marked issues as duplicate](https://3281d.com/2010/04/22/duplicate-issues-drupal-org) as another metric of participation. You can watch the full [State of Drupal keynote](http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/state-drupal) down below: