Gary Ewan Park

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

I am the maintainer of the Cake.Recipe project, which is an opinionated set of build scripts for Cake. In 2023, there was one new releases of Cake.Recipe. This system is used as the primary mechanism for building the Cake Addins that exist within the Cake-Contrib Organisation on GitHub: https://github.com/cake-contrib Collectively, Cake-Contrib Addins have been downloaded over 73 million times (up from 57 million last year): https://www.nuget.org/profiles/cake-contrib While Cake.Recipe isn't used for all of these addins, it is used for the majority of them.

This was released to both NuGet: https://www.nuget.org/packages/Cake.Bakery/0.16.0 and Chocolatey: https://community.chocolatey.org/packages/cake-bakery.portable/0.16.0

Sat down with Dan and chatted about building projects for earlier versions of .NET Framework, and continuing to support them. This show won't become public until sometime next month.