# Congrats, Daniel Hokka Zakrisson! **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Project\ **Created:** [November 17, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/congrats-daniel-hokka-zakrisson/12093 "2012-11-17T14:08:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Michael\_DeHaan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@Michael\_DeHaan](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Michael_DeHaan)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 2:08pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/congrats-daniel-hokka-zakrisson/12093/1 "2012-11-17T14:08:42Z")
Hi everyone, Daniel is the #2 most active contributor to Ansible, and amazes me with his ability to seemingly be present in all time zones and being extraordinarily productive. He is also extremely helpful to everyone answering questions on IRC, as many of you have probably noticed. In any event, Ansible is growing to huge volumes of usage, and the pull requests come in from all directions at once, and Daniel has agreed to help me out a bit. So, he now has direct commit access so he can now patch things and help merge requests without waiting on me.   So you may be interacting with him a bit more on pull requests where it used to be mostly me. This is really important for a few reasons. Ansible isn't my day job, and when I want to take a few nights off, I get buried with pull requests. Some of our fellow automation tools are corporate and have 5 or 30 or 50 full time employees. We have 0! This project is seriously huge lately in terms of contributions coming in -- even exceeding the rates of those other projects. I think that's because it's generally very easy to write modules, and hopefully the code is easy enough to dive into -- but regardless, we have very high contribution rates. Daniel and I are still going to confer on major features, and I'm still leading things up in terms of roadmaps/releases/etc, so no change there -- but I'm excited about this and you should be to. It means Ansible can move forward a lot faster, I'll be able to concentrate on a few more specific things when I want to, and I think Daniel has very good judgement. For everyone else who is wondering, and hasn't contributed yet, you do not need commit access to contribute to ansible, as you can just send a pull request through github, though someone with commit access is needed in order to merge pull requests and get patches into the main tree. We will probably also take on some other committers over time. Thanks a huge amount to Daniel for all of his hard work! --Michael ---
**Author:** ![jpmens1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jpmens1](https://forum.ansible.com/u/jpmens1)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/congrats-daniel-hokka-zakrisson/12093/2 "2012-11-17T15:31:05Z")
> Daniel is the #2 most active contributor to Ansible, and amazes me Daniel deserves so incredibly many +1s that I don't know how to start. Thank you, Daniel and keep up the tremendous work.         -JP ---
**Author:** ![Marco\_Vito\_Moscarito](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/97f17d/32.png) [@Marco\_Vito\_Moscarito](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Marco_Vito_Moscarito)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 7:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/congrats-daniel-hokka-zakrisson/12093/3 "2012-11-17T19:32:33Z")
Daniel congrats!! ---
**Author:** ![Daniel\_Hokka\_Zakriss](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@Daniel\_Hokka\_Zakriss](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Daniel_Hokka_Zakriss)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2012, 11:43pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/congrats-daniel-hokka-zakrisson/12093/4 "2012-11-17T23:43:15Z")
Hi, Thank you Michael for all of the kind words and the opportunity to help out more! I hope I will be able to off-load you some and help move us forward. Daniel Michael DeHaan wrote: