February 2026 — Movement repository (neuroinformatics-unit/movement) Key feature delivered: - Contributor Experience Enhancement: Overhauled the contributing guide for clarity and accessibility; added community cards to improve engagement and navigation; moved the contributing guide into docs; updated Community index layout; refreshed links and stabilized CI to streamline the contribution process. Major bugs fixed: - Fixed CI failures that blocked PR validation and disrupted contributor onboarding; corrected link issues and aligned docs with current workflows to improve reliability. Overall impact and accomplishments: - Significantly improved onboarding and contributor experience, reducing time to PR readiness and increasing potential contributor throughput; enhanced documentation quality and project governance; reinforced a sustainable, engaging open-source workflow. Technologies/skills demonstrated: - Documentation design and information architecture, CI/CD troubleshooting and stabilization, repository maintenance, and cross-team collaboration in a real-world OSS workflow.

December 2025 monthly summary for sympy/sympy: Focused on API terminology modernization and deprecation strategy related to array dimensionality. Key deliverables include standardizing terminology from get_rank to get_ndim, aligning array.ndim with array.rank across the codebase and docs, and addressing deprecation warnings by routing internal calls through get_ndim. Completed cross-repo refactor efforts and refreshed documentation to reflect the new naming. These changes improve API consistency, reduce user confusion, and lower ongoing maintenance costs.