Looking back at my first year as the Renovate Project Lead

🤖 This post includes some LLM-derived content 🤖 A year ago on Thursday, I logged on for my first day joining Mend to work on Renovate full-time. Similar to what I did after my first 100 days, I thought now would be a good time to recap how this last year has gone. This is also a fun way of doing a public mini performance review! I'd planned to try and land this on my actual anniversary, but I know this is going to be a busy week - as they all seem to be, nowadays - so thought I'd pre-publish it (and because I don't like waiting to hit publish). Plus, publishing this now means that I don't have to keep re-writing this as the stats change! Note that below includes analysis from Claude Opus 5, based on data from our "maintainer dashboard" and commits on main over the last year. I've done some double-checking of some of these stats. Claude Opus 5 has created each of the charts on this page. Changes in the industry Before I get into how things have gone with the Renovate project, I wanted…