The Mattermost server repo surpasses 20,000 stars on GitHub
In March 2021, the Mattermost server repository officially surpassed 20,000 stars on GitHub, and we couldn’t be more excited!
Huge thanks to our community for their incredible support of the Mattermost open source project and their belief in the power of secure workplace messaging solutions built for developers by developers.
Some history and some highlights
The Mattermost project has grown considerably since it launched on June 28, 2015.
Over the years, our ever-growing community has invented and contributed hundreds of impressive features. To highlight our contributors’ achievements, we vote on a Most Valued Professional each month.
Thanks to our community’s help, Mattermost now ships in 18 different languages, and many additional languages are in progress. (If you’re interested in helping out with Mattermost localization efforts, check this out.)
On Feb. 16, 2021, we shipped our most current release, Mattermost v5.32. Here’s a brief timeline of some milestones along the way:
- In October 2015, we released Mattermost 1.0
- In February 2016, we released Mattermost 2.0
- In May 2016, we released Mattermost 3.0
- In July 2017, we released Mattermost 4.0
- In June 2018, we released Mattermost 5.0
Thinking about contributing to Mattermost?
We release a new version of Mattermost each month. If you are thinking about contributing to the project, take a look at our Help Wanted tickets and see if there are any that interest you. To increase the chances your pull requests are approved, check out this piece on how to submit great PRs.
Keep in mind that there are many different ways to contribute to Mattermost — from being a community advocate and supporting platform, mobile, desktop, and webapp development to building integrations, working on localization, writing documentation, reporting bugs, and suggesting features.
If you’re thinking about contributing to Mattermost, we’d love for you to get involved. Learn more about how to contribute to Mattermost.
