10,000 commits to the Open Source project from one person

On the Drupal statistics page you can see that the creator of this project, Dries Buytaert, overcame the symbolic mark of ten thousand commits. At the moment he has 10023.

This seems to be an example of incredible hard work, but he confessed to Bytaert in a letter that in fact he commits mostly other people's patches that are sent to him personally. In fact, is it possible for one person to make ten thousand commits into one project?

However, in fact it is possible. For example, for talents like Linus Torvalds ( 10034 commits only in Linux Kernel 2.6). Surely there are other similar examples.

One way or another, the 33-year-old programmer Dries Buytaert has continued to contribute to improving Drupal and fixing bugs for more than a decade. Although he does this not completely disinterested, after all, Bytaert has a related business that is based on Drupal, but you can still marvel at the dedication of the Belgian to his work. After all, in principle, Drupal has already received sufficient distribution (even the White House website works on this CMS) and could be developed exclusively by the efforts of the community.