After WordCamp US, we have prepared some insights about our team and we wanted to share it with the community.

These are the insights from the Plugins Team:

  • We now have 60,187 plugins published in the directory.
  • Today, we received as many new plugins and completed as many reviews as we did in the entire last year.
  • We have received 7,670 new submissions this year, which is 87.3% more than in the same period last year.
  • Since the start of the year, we have had an average of 235 new submissions per week. In the same period last year, there were 124 new plugins.
  • The queue is less than one week, even though we have received many more submissions.
  • On average, we spend 6.19 review cycles to approve a plugin, which is 11.2% fewer reviews per plugin compared to last year.
  • 85.3% of first reviews made this year were initiated by an automated system that uses algorithms and AI to perform the first review of the plugin, requiring only minimal input from human reviewers, saving us time.
  • 64.2% of plugin authors successfully engaged with the review process, which is 17.1% higher than the year before.
  • Out of the plugin authors that followed the review process, 60.27% were approved.

In summary, although the number of submitted plugins is increasing, the team’s effort remains steady, thanks in part to AI automation in certain areas. Our goal is to continue improving by implementing AI in more checks, as well as introducing proactive scanning of the current Plugins Directory.

All this data was prepared on the 31th of August.

Written by @davidperez, reviewed by @frantorres

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