Gary Ewan Park

I studied for, and passed, the GitHub Foundations Certification exam. This confirmed the knowledge that I have about GitHub, so that I will be in a position to share with others. I plan on doing the other GitHub exams as well.

This was released of NuGet.org here as: GitReleaseManager - https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager/0.17.0 GitReleaseManager.Tool - https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/0.17.0 and to community.chocolatey.org here: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable/0.17.0

I presented my talk "Let's Ship This Thing" at the Swetugg Conference in Gothenburg. More information about this talk here: https://github.com/gep13-talks/GitHubReleaseDemos

I have been an active member of the Stack Overflow community, answering questions on topics such as: - Chocolatey - Cake - GitVersion - GitFlow In 2023, I am currently within the top 2% of users on the site, with my reputation score having increased by around 1400 points.

I am one of the core contributors to the Cake project: https://github.com/cake-build/cake In 2023 we have shipped 3 releases of Cake, including a release which included support for .NET 8 on the week that this was released. Across it different platforms, Cake has over 79 million downloads (up from 42 million last year): https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Tool/ https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake.portable The Cake .NET Global Tool is currently THE most downloaded .NET Global Tool on NuGet.org: https://www.nuget.org/packages?packagetype=dotnettool&sortby=totalDownloads-desc&q=&prerel=True

I am the primary maintainer of the GitReleaseManager project, which is a tool to help with the creation of release notes for your Open Source projects. In 2023 there were 3 new releases of GitReleaseManager. Across its different versions, this application has been downloaded almost 385000 times (up from 325000 last year). https://www.nuget.org/packages/gitreleasemanager/ https://www.nuget.org/packages/GitReleaseManager.Tool/ https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/gitreleasemanager.portable

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey GUI project: https://github.com/chocolatey/chocolateygui Which is a GUI wrapper around the Chocolatey Package Manager. In 2023, we completed 5 releases of Chocolatey GUI, and this project now has 2,670,571 downloads (up from just under 2 million last year): https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/ChocolateyGUI

I am the primary maintainer of the Chocolatey project: https://github.com/chocolatey/choco Which is a Package Manager for Windows. In 2023, there were 9 new releases of Chocolatey, which have so far been downloaded over 44 million times (up from 17million for last year). Chocolatey as a project has been downloaded over 321 million times (up from almost 270 million last year). https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/chocolatey